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 Argentina and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Underground Resistance to the grunge 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
the Human League,
The Sonics,
Sight & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Aswad,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minny Pops,
Blossom Toes,
Bauhaus,
Isaac Hayes,
Television Personalities,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fugazi,
T.S.O.L.,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young,
Tres Demented,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marvin Gaye,
Hasil Adkins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quando Quango,
The Offenders,
The United States of America,
Nirvana,
Ronnie Foster,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Anakelly,
Rakim,
Visage,
The Neon Judgement,
Juan Atkins,
The Music Machine,
Tubeway Army,
the Association,
The Toasters,
Suicide,
Drive Like Jehu,
Faraquet,
Lucky Dragons,
The Monochrome Set,
Brand Nubian,
In Retrospect,
Masters at Work,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Circle Jerks,
Symarip,
Scratch Acid,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cybotron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Chris & Cosey,
Slick Rick,
Scott Walker,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.