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 Mozambique and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Lalann to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Scratch Acid,
Spoonie Gee,
Junior Murvin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Make Up,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Whodini,
Blake Baxter,
China Crisis,
Bang On A Can,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
The Monks,
The Mojo Men,
Hardrive,
Letta Mbulu,
The Walker Brothers,
Television,
Crooked Eye,
Ossler,
The Pop Group,
New York Dolls,
Sun City Girls,
the Slits,
Guru Guru,
The American Breed,
Sex Pistols,
the Association,
Oblivians,
Silicon Teens,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Names,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Adolescents,
Joensuu 1685,
H. Thieme,
Donny Hathaway,
Skriet,
Erykah Badu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lucky Dragons,
The Moleskins,
The Pretty Things,
The Fuzztones,
a-ha,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soul II Soul,
Chris & Cosey,
Jeff Mills,
Johnny Clarke,
Yellowson,
Joey Negro,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.