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 Mauritius and from Lyon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 arpeggiator 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 Spandau Ballet to the funk 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Skatalites,
Nirvana,
Jacques Brel,
Tim Buckley,
Darondo,
David Axelrod,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Cowsills,
Con Funk Shun,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Section 25,
Chris Corsano,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ponytail,
Scientists,
Blossom Toes,
Trumans Water,
T. Rex,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
Carl Craig,
Symarip,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Guru Guru,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dennis Brown,
Joe Finger,
Bob Dylan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Model 500,
Bad Manners,
The Detroit Cobras,
Goldenarms,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vladislav Delay,
Tres Demented,
Reuben Wilson,
Absolute Body Control,
Minor Threat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lightning Bolt,
Banda Bassotti,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
The Stooges,
Mad Mike,
Quantec,
MC5,
K-Klass,
Juan Atkins,
Patti Smith,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nils Olav,
Joy Division,
Lindisfarne,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.