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 Brunei and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Divine Comedy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Average White Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Dawn Penn,
The Buckinghams,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Last Poets,
Peter & Gordon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Newcleus,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter and Kerry,
ABBA,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Angry Samoans,
Bluetip,
Hasil Adkins,
The Blackbyrds,
The Seeds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Organ,
Bobby Byrd,
The Toasters,
D'Angelo,
Schoolly D,
Bob Dylan,
The Cowsills,
Beasts of Bourbon,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
The Real Kids,
Mr. Review,
China Crisis,
Camouflage,
Gang of Four,
The Young Rascals,
Barclay James Harvest,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
Urselle,
Talk Talk,
The Moleskins,
Toni Rubio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cecil Taylor,
David Bowie,
Black Sheep,
T. Rex,
X-102,
UT,
Minutemen,
June Days,
Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Magma,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.