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 Dominica and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sexual Harrassment,
Bronski Beat,
Soul II Soul,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
Basic Channel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rufus Thomas,
Ossler,
Unrelated Segments,
The Grass Roots,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Q65,
The Cure,
10cc,
Blancmange,
Sex Pistols,
Marmalade,
The Detroit Cobras,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Don Cherry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amon Düül,
Kerrie Biddell,
Average White Band,
Warren Ellis,
The Victims,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
A Certain Ratio,
Charles Mingus,
Surgeon,
the Soft Cell,
Jeff Lynne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Count Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
The J.B.'s,
Negative Approach,
Delta 5,
Metal Thangz,
Lightning Bolt,
Kayak,
The Black Dice,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Trumans Water,
The Mummies,
Dual Sessions,
Josef K,
The Associates,
Au Pairs,
The Birthday Party,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronan,
New Order,
the Normal,
Saccharine Trust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Technova,
Mars,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.