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 Chile and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 Buzzcocks to the disco 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Blackbyrds,
Alton Ellis,
Unwound,
Warsaw,
Hot Snakes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Los Fastidios,
Excepter,
John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Q65,
Quadrant,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronnie Foster,
Camouflage,
Minor Threat,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
The Searchers,
Al Stewart,
Marc Almond,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Henry Cow,
Prince Buster,
Bauhaus,
Gastr Del Sol,
UT,
Funky Four + One,
Black Bananas,
Angry Samoans,
The Gap Band,
The Young Rascals,
Y Pants,
Dawn Penn,
Q and Not U,
Smog,
The Neon Judgement,
Japan,
The Moleskins,
The Divine Comedy,
Alice Coltrane,
Fad Gadget,
Faraquet,
Aswad,
Essential Logic,
Sex Pistols,
Dark Day,
The Velvet Underground,
Dual Sessions,
Mo-Dettes,
China Crisis,
Masters at Work,
The Martian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.