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 Norway and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Model 500 to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Germs,
OOIOO,
Adolescents,
Franke,
Avey Tare,
Deakin,
Buzzcocks,
Harry Pussy,
Wings,
Yazoo,
Leonard Cohen,
The Monks,
Terry Callier,
Ornette Coleman,
Supertramp,
D'Angelo,
The J.B.'s,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Oneida,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Hood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Bananas,
The New Christs,
Delta 5,
Deepchord,
Fatback Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Icehouse,
Camouflage,
Gang Green,
Jeff Lynne,
Donald Byrd,
Jeff Mills,
Roger Hodgson,
The Raincoats,
Scientists,
Outsiders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Steve Hackett,
La Düsseldorf,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Technova,
Ultra Naté,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Move,
Freddie Wadling,
Pantaleimon,
Jawbox,
The Stooges,
Von Mondo,
Spandau Ballet,
JFA,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
Warren Ellis,
Faust,
Ken Boothe,
B.T. Express,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.