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 Australia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 10cc to the rock 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
The Raincoats,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultra Naté,
Nils Olav,
Colin Newman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Loose Ends,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sparks,
Crime,
The Invisible,
Davy DMX,
Chris Corsano,
MDC,
The New Christs,
Make Up,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yazoo,
DNA,
Jacob Miller,
Nico,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joey Negro,
Franke,
Half Japanese,
Q and Not U,
Derrick Morgan,
Fear,
Severed Heads,
Young Marble Giants,
Royal Trux,
Main Source,
June Days,
Malaria!,
Q65,
Alphaville,
Lalann,
Gil Scott Heron,
Deakin,
Alison Limerick,
Lindisfarne,
Minnie Riperton,
Section 25,
Vladislav Delay,
CMW,
Camberwell Now,
Traffic Nightmare,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Skatalites,
Girls At Our Best!,
X-102,
The Red Krayola,
Index,
The Vogues,
The Grass Roots,
The Gories,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.