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 Estonia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Electric Light Orchestra 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Offenders,
New York Dolls,
Gong,
Chris Corsano,
Marvin Gaye,
Average White Band,
The Mummies,
Silicon Teens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dorothy Ashby,
Chris & Cosey,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül II,
Radio Birdman,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sound Behaviour,
R.M.O.,
The Invisible,
Scan 7,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lyres,
Duran Duran,
Camberwell Now,
The Music Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tommy Roe,
James White and The Blacks,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Gabor Szabo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deepchord,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bad Manners,
Kayak,
Quadrant,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sound,
the Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Unrelated Segments,
Chrome,
Trumans Water,
cv313,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Last Poets,
Ten City,
Nas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül,
Mission of Burma,
Mars,
Symarip,
Can,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.