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 Poland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ 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 The Human League to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
The American Breed,
Ultimate Spinach,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amon Düül II,
L. Decosne,
Q and Not U,
The Moody Blues,
Zapp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Terry Callier,
Symarip,
Piero Umiliani,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Robert Hood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Al Stewart,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Invisible,
Barry Ungar,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Order,
Albert Ayler,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Sound Behaviour,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masters at Work,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
World's Most,
Deepchord,
JFA,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television,
Aaron Thompson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Shoche,
Blancmange,
Magma,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Eddi Front,
Bob Dylan,
Johnny Clarke,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oblivians,
Dead Boys,
The Monks,
Donny Hathaway,
The Dirtbombs,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Japan,
the Slits,
Goldenarms,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.