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 St Lucia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Marshall Jefferson to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monolake,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Organ,
Bauhaus,
The Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nik Kershaw,
The Moleskins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Half Japanese,
Bill Wells,
Tommy Roe,
Brick,
Marshall Jefferson,
These Immortal Souls,
The J.B.'s,
Marine Girls,
Wally Richardson,
Hot Snakes,
Das Ding,
Blossom Toes,
John Foxx,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash,
Clear Light,
The Music Machine,
Ludus,
Wolf Eyes,
Rites of Spring,
The Index,
Derrick May,
The Motions,
the Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New York Dolls,
H. Thieme,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crime,
Terry Callier,
Skarface,
Bill Near,
Von Mondo,
Spoonie Gee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.