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 Belize and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lakeside to the funk 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Mary Jane Girls,
Guru Guru,
Fluxion,
Hasil Adkins,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Los Fastidios,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacques Brel,
Monolake,
Outsiders,
Eden Ahbez,
Lakeside,
Ponytail,
The Monochrome Set,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Boredoms,
The Invisible,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun City Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
OOIOO,
The Searchers,
Lower 48,
Pantaleimon,
Gong,
Joyce Sims,
Nick Fraelich,
Gastr Del Sol,
Royal Trux,
Patti Smith,
Sällskapet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed,
Oneida,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fatback Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Average White Band,
The Pretty Things,
Sparks,
The Residents,
Ituana,
the Human League,
Alison Limerick,
The Standells,
Terry Callier,
K-Klass,
Kayak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Angry Samoans,
Clear Light,
John Cale,
the Normal,
Urselle,
The Black Dice,
Surgeon,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.