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 St Lucia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer 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 Loose Ends to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Cymande,
The Raincoats,
Hardrive,
Inner City,
The Evens,
Freddie Wadling,
Matthew Halsall,
Goldenarms,
Newcleus,
The Velvet Underground,
Judy Mowatt,
Kayak,
Alton Ellis,
DNA,
Eddi Front,
The Modern Lovers,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vladislav Delay,
The Wake,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camberwell Now,
X-102,
L. Decosne,
Faraquet,
H. Thieme,
AZ,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flamin' Groovies,
Godley & Creme,
John Foxx,
Scratch Acid,
Boz Scaggs,
Zapp,
Franke,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
Neil Young,
Sun City Girls,
CMW,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Niagra,
The Blackbyrds,
The Residents,
Rufus Thomas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerrie Biddell,
World's Most,
Aswad,
Bob Dylan,
Peter and Kerry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.