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 Slovakia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eddi Front to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Newcleus,
Unrelated Segments,
The Music Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
Cal Tjader,
Magazine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Sonics,
The Sound,
D'Angelo,
Minutemen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rapeman,
Albert Ayler,
Fat Boys,
The Moody Blues,
Drive Like Jehu,
Franke,
T.S.O.L.,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Invisible,
Neu!,
Black Flag,
Kurtis Blow,
Livin' Joy,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gong,
New Order,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Porter Ricks,
Talk Talk,
Faust,
Delta 5,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dirtbombs,
Motorama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eddi Front,
Duran Duran,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cramps,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Pus,
Cymande,
Matthew Bourne,
Mission of Burma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.