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 Lebanon and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Donny Hathaway to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 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 Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
The New Christs,
The Tremeloes,
K-Klass,
Lebanon Hanover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Pop Group,
The Last Poets,
Accadde A,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
Public Enemy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Todd Terry,
Man Parrish,
The Fortunes,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
Albert Ayler,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
These Immortal Souls,
Simply Red,
Swell Maps,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Modern Lovers,
Donald Byrd,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Darondo,
U.S. Maple,
Wire,
Sparks,
The Durutti Column,
Model 500,
Lalann,
Aaron Thompson,
The Raincoats,
Motorama,
The Velvet Underground,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Mars,
Radiohead,
Stereo Dub,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Flag,
Ultravox,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Tim Buckley,
Nirvana,
Scrapy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bootsy Collins,
PIL,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Talk Talk,
Eve St. Jones,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.