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 Mongolia and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Chrome to the dance 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
KRS-One,
Howard Jones,
The Cowsills,
Minny Pops,
Tres Demented,
Crash Course in Science,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wally Richardson,
Pantytec,
Camouflage,
Yusef Lateef,
One Last Wish,
Brass Construction,
China Crisis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Leaves,
UT,
The Techniques,
Blancmange,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics,
Fela Kuti,
Soft Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sam Rivers,
The Real Kids,
Das Ding,
Warsaw,
The United States of America,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pantaleimon,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Count Five,
X-101,
The New Christs,
Maleditus Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Axelrod,
Sugar Minott,
The Gun Club,
Reuben Wilson,
Barbara Tucker,
Al Stewart,
Flash Fearless,
10cc,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Fraelich,
Skarface,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rekid,
Lightning Bolt,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pole,
Susan Cadogan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wire,
The Searchers,
Black Sheep,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.