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 Armenia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Lungfish to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deakin,
Brass Construction,
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
Ice-T,
Slave,
A Certain Ratio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Isaac Hayes,
Joensuu 1685,
Zero Boys,
The Leaves,
Nico,
Eli Mardock,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jimmy McGriff,
This Heat,
Lungfish,
Smog,
The Zeros,
Terry Callier,
Al Stewart,
Gerry Rafferty,
Goldenarms,
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Soft Cell,
Yaz,
The Gun Club,
Max Romeo,
Camberwell Now,
Skriet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Laurel Aitken,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxy Music,
The Evens,
Charles Mingus,
Minny Pops,
Harmonia,
Television,
Ronnie Foster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül II,
Eurythmics,
Visage,
The Vogues,
Juan Atkins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
CMW,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wally Richardson,
Nirvana,
Fatback Band,
Adolescents,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.