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 Bolivia and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 Delta 5 to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Eric Copeland,
Main Source,
The J.B.'s,
X-101,
Monolake,
Derrick May,
Nation of Ulysses,
Babytalk,
Tres Demented,
The Moleskins,
Quantec,
Connie Case,
Cal Tjader,
Pere Ubu,
The Beau Brummels,
The Tremeloes,
Schoolly D,
Lightning Bolt,
The Move,
Lalann,
The Fire Engines,
Aloha Tigers,
Depeche Mode,
Grauzone,
Television Personalities,
Subhumans,
Average White Band,
Sun City Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Prince Buster,
Hoover,
Ornette Coleman,
Stereo Dub,
Peter & Gordon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
EPMD,
Minor Threat,
Popol Vuh,
Khruangbin,
Rosa Yemen,
Roxy Music,
Moby Grape,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Warsaw,
Traffic Nightmare,
Chris Corsano,
Johnny Clarke,
John Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Star Department,
The Fugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Rotary Connection,
Stetsasonic,
Simply Red,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
Fugazi,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.