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 Gambia and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Tears for Fears to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Radiopuhelimet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Television Personalities,
The Saints,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Procol Harum,
The Tremeloes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tomorrow,
F. McDonald,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Sheep,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
The Standells,
Basic Channel,
Stetsasonic,
Warren Ellis,
James White and The Blacks,
Flipper,
Terry Callier,
Bill Wells,
JFA,
Skarface,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jerry's Kids,
Radiohead,
Flash Fearless,
Echospace,
Ponytail,
The Young Rascals,
Shoche,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Kinks,
Robert Wyatt,
The Happenings,
Pantytec,
Glenn Branca,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Duran Duran,
Nils Olav,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cameo,
Roger Hodgson,
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
Mars,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Coltrane,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.