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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lalo Schifrin to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Darondo,
The Fire Engines,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bootsy Collins,
Silicon Teens,
Angry Samoans,
Trumans Water,
Isaac Hayes,
Easy Going,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Wyatt,
Urselle,
Blake Baxter,
Second Layer,
Tim Buckley,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crash Course in Science,
Vainqueur,
LL Cool J,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Jawbox,
Bad Manners,
Man Parrish,
Agitation Free,
Q and Not U,
Ludus,
Audionom,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fluxion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jeff Lynne,
Massinfluence,
Rites of Spring,
Magazine,
Circle Jerks,
Panda Bear,
Shoche,
Amon Düül II,
Black Pus,
The Modern Lovers,
In Retrospect,
Lungfish,
The Gun Club,
Scott Walker,
Lakeside,
The Slackers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
Eric Copeland,
Whodini,
Sound Behaviour,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.