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 United States and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Tres Demented,
Sparks,
Warren Ellis,
The Pop Group,
Todd Rundgren,
Thompson Twins,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
Barbara Tucker,
Inner City,
the Swans,
The Smiths,
The Fall,
Hashim,
Spoonie Gee,
Brass Construction,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rekid,
Eurythmics,
Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Harmonia,
The Leaves,
Bang On A Can,
The Tremeloes,
The Slackers,
Swans,
Arab on Radar,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pulsallama,
Excepter,
Prince Buster,
The Five Americans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
Brand Nubian,
Iggy Pop,
Quando Quango,
Crooked Eye,
Ice-T,
Lalann,
Josef K,
Cecil Taylor,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Raincoats,
Erykah Badu,
Roxette,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Popol Vuh,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Qualms,
Mandrill,
Boz Scaggs,
The Searchers,
The Pretty Things,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.