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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Babytalk to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Desert Stars,
Faust,
UT,
Siglo XX,
Eric B and Rakim,
Basic Channel,
Aswad,
Eddi Front,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Jawbox,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Los Fastidios,
Spoonie Gee,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lebanon Hanover,
Easy Going,
Jeff Lynne,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
The Tremeloes,
L. Decosne,
Iggy Pop,
48th St. Collective,
Franke,
Kenny Larkin,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Barbara Tucker,
Hoover,
Essential Logic,
the Soft Cell,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Symarip,
The Dead C,
The Selecter,
Crash Course in Science,
Dawn Penn,
Nation of Ulysses,
Susan Cadogan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pantaleimon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jerry's Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Procol Harum,
The Walker Brothers,
Youth Brigade,
Peter & Gordon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oneida,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cybotron,
Blake Baxter,
Dennis Brown,
The Velvet Underground,
The Moody Blues,
The Doors,
Outsiders,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.