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 Yemen and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Roxy Music to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sound Behaviour,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Harpers Bizarre,
Johnny Clarke,
Monks,
The Cowsills,
The Offenders,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Morten Harket,
The Kinks,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bill Near,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Excepter,
Kurtis Blow,
Junior Murvin,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Hill,
Eve St. Jones,
Ronan,
James White and The Blacks,
The Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
Cymande,
Flash Fearless,
Mo-Dettes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Faust,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marvin Gaye,
Cal Tjader,
Niagra,
DJ Style,
Barry Ungar,
The Cure,
The Techniques,
Echospace,
The Searchers,
the Slits,
Sun Ra,
The Dirtbombs,
Kayak,
Hasil Adkins,
cv313,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeff Mills,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
Crime,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.