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 Guyana and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Quando Quango to the dance 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Altered Images,
Icehouse,
Gang Green,
Aswad,
Nirvana,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pagans,
The Velvet Underground,
Franke,
Donny Hathaway,
Steve Hackett,
Magma,
Erasure,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joe Finger,
Fat Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeff Mills,
The Victims,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deepchord,
Danielle Patucci,
MDC,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Raincoats,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scrapy,
Babytalk,
Brass Construction,
Dual Sessions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thompson Twins,
Minutemen,
The Pretty Things,
Motorama,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gun Club,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Glenn Branca,
Drexciya,
Subhumans,
Little Man,
Bill Near,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Alarm Clocks,
Arthur Verocai,
Liliput,
Supertramp,
Swell Maps,
cv313,
Vladislav Delay,
ABBA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker,
Can,
Bootsy Collins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.