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 Croatia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bush Tetras to the grunge 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Jeff Lynne,
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monks,
Parry Music,
Aloha Tigers,
Sällskapet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Henry Cow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Big Daddy Kane,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cowsills,
China Crisis,
Todd Rundgren,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Qualms,
Black Flag,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
Wolf Eyes,
kango's stein massive,
UT,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Fania All-Stars,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Boogie Down Productions,
R.M.O.,
The Saints,
This Heat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Toni Rubio,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Theoretical Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Bootsy Collins,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Hood,
Letta Mbulu,
Blancmange,
The Smoke,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tubeway Army,
Andrew Hill,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
Howard Jones,
Zapp,
The Invisible,
The Dead C,
Kenny Larkin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bush Tetras,
Crime,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Holt,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.