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 Marshall Islands and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Thee Headcoats to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Television Personalities,
Slave,
DNA,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Rites of Spring,
Alice Coltrane,
Joensuu 1685,
Franke,
Accadde A,
Qualms,
Wally Richardson,
John Foxx,
Fluxion,
Minor Threat,
Joe Finger,
Zero Boys,
Yaz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soul Sonic Force,
Model 500,
Simply Red,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Prince Buster,
Robert Wyatt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The United States of America,
Ultra Naté,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roxy Music,
Terry Callier,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pagans,
Marine Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kaleidoscope,
Ronnie Foster,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-101,
Nico,
The Golliwogs,
Avey Tare,
L. Decosne,
Pantytec,
The Divine Comedy,
Goldenarms,
The Smiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Beau Brummels,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.