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 Bhutan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Lou Reed 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the disco 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Amon Düül II,
Royal Trux,
kango's stein massive,
Cheater Slicks,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
LL Cool J,
Second Layer,
Mark Hollis,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Pierre Henry,
Donald Byrd,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cure,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
Archie Shepp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kenny Larkin,
Matthew Halsall,
CMW,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Techniques,
The New Christs,
the Germs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Schoolly D,
Sun Ra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yaz,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Model 500,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Remains,
cv313,
Nils Olav,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Sparks,
Eve St. Jones,
Robert Hood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
Motorama,
Alison Limerick,
Bluetip,
Lightning Bolt,
Yazoo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Q65,
Rapeman,
Aswad,
Skaos,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bizarre Inc.,
Suicide,
Danielle Patucci,
The Leaves,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.