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 Nigeria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Liliput to the jazz 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Surgeon,
Von Mondo,
Buzzcocks,
Pulsallama,
Pole,
The Count Five,
ABBA,
Erykah Badu,
The Motions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harry Pussy,
Suburban Knight,
Guru Guru,
Television,
Henry Cow,
Can,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Silicon Teens,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gap Band,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brothers Johnson,
The Offenders,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harmonia,
The Fall,
Barry Ungar,
The Cosmic Jokers,
James White and The Blacks,
The Divine Comedy,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camouflage,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hardrive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fugazi,
Oneida,
The United States of America,
the Association,
Tres Demented,
Eddi Front,
Jerry's Kids,
The American Breed,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
AZ,
Hoover,
Agent Orange,
One Last Wish,
Malaria!,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Clarke,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.