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 Uganda and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Japan 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ten City,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bizarre Inc.,
MDC,
Eve St. Jones,
Das Ding,
Quantec,
Ultravox,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
Roger Hodgson,
Brass Construction,
Harry Pussy,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeff Lynne,
Mad Mike,
John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thompson Twins,
Q and Not U,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Erykah Badu,
The Pretty Things,
Gregory Isaacs,
Agent Orange,
The Saints,
Intrusion,
Rakim,
Lucky Dragons,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Make Up,
The Fugs,
Idris Muhammad,
The Cramps,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dark Day,
Minny Pops,
T.S.O.L.,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
Surgeon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bronski Beat,
E-Dancer,
Electric Prunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang of Four,
Cal Tjader,
Talk Talk,
Model 500,
Crime,
The Cowsills,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eurythmics,
Charles Mingus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nils Olav,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.