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 Jamaica and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes 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 organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mo-Dettes,
The Music Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Mark Hollis,
Clear Light,
the Normal,
This Heat,
The United States of America,
Byron Stingily,
The Index,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Byrd,
Yaz,
Rapeman,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pantytec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Unwound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Inner City,
Deakin,
D'Angelo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boz Scaggs,
Make Up,
Stetsasonic,
Brass Construction,
Mission of Burma,
UT,
Goldenarms,
Jeru the Damaja,
K-Klass,
Kenny Larkin,
Average White Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ituana,
Porter Ricks,
Section 25,
The Invisible,
MC5,
Pantaleimon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Toni Rubio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eurythmics,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Junior Murvin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.