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 Malta and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Oblivians,
Frankie Knuckles,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grauzone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roxette,
Pole,
David McCallum,
China Crisis,
Piero Umiliani,
Unrelated Segments,
Glenn Branca,
New Order,
Average White Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Scratch Acid,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Vogues,
Moss Icon,
Absolute Body Control,
Bluetip,
Bad Manners,
Fatback Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
Deepchord,
Morten Harket,
Fluxion,
The Monks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeru the Damaja,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Adolescents,
Ornette Coleman,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rotary Connection,
Siglo XX,
The Offenders,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Isaac Hayes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Christie,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ultra Naté,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Misunderstood,
Matthew Halsall,
the Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Schoolly D,
Flipper,
Eden Ahbez,
Al Stewart,
Camberwell Now,
EPMD,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.