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 Kazakhstan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Tubeway Army to the electroclash 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Pulsallama,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Inner City,
Quadrant,
Soft Machine,
Dorothy Ashby,
Wings,
T.S.O.L.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Flash Fearless,
The Associates,
Livin' Joy,
Excepter,
Scan 7,
Vladislav Delay,
The Sonics,
Babytalk,
Mandrill,
Delta 5,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soulsonic Force,
Buzzcocks,
Maleditus Sound,
Brass Construction,
10cc,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Happenings,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Certain Ratio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Remains,
Scientists,
Bluetip,
The Birthday Party,
Letta Mbulu,
Oneida,
L. Decosne,
Groovy Waters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
48th St. Collective,
Dead Boys,
Das Ding,
The Walker Brothers,
Guru Guru,
Tomorrow,
The J.B.'s,
Man Parrish,
Jacques Brel,
Deepchord,
Dawn Penn,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.