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 Mongolia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 FM Einheit to the techno 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Fear,
Television Personalities,
David McCallum,
Dennis Brown,
Minnie Riperton,
Sarah Menescal,
Lightning Bolt,
Procol Harum,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tubeway Army,
Minor Threat,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Infiniti,
La Düsseldorf,
Matthew Bourne,
Marine Girls,
Quantec,
Flamin' Groovies,
Japan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Misunderstood,
Symarip,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lindisfarne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Intrusion,
Pet Shop Boys,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ronan,
Q65,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kas Product,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sugar Minott,
Scott Walker,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
Buzzcocks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Blues Magoos,
The Evens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
Cal Tjader,
Hardrive,
Ice-T,
Joyce Sims,
Sight & Sound,
Unwound,
Avey Tare,
Half Japanese,
Al Stewart,
Morten Harket,
MC5,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.