Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Spain and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Brick,
Fear,
Matthew Bourne,
The Happenings,
Fad Gadget,
Saccharine Trust,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vainqueur,
The Vogues,
The Five Americans,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Skatalites,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Germs,
Pulsallama,
New Order,
The Busters,
The Misunderstood,
Ronnie Foster,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Slave,
Tim Buckley,
The Zeros,
Dead Boys,
Lindisfarne,
David McCallum,
R.M.O.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Davy DMX,
Youth Brigade,
Can,
Matthew Halsall,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Music Machine,
Eve St. Jones,
Monolake,
Drexciya,
In Retrospect,
Bill Near,
FM Einheit,
Tears for Fears,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masters at Work,
Ten City,
Niagra,
China Crisis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David Bowie,
X-Ray Spex,
Skarface,
The Sonics,
Eurythmics,
Steve Hackett,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Porter Ricks,
Peter & Gordon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.