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 Qatar and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes 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 Bootsy Collins to the funk 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dead Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rekid,
Unrelated Segments,
Glenn Branca,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
The Techniques,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Loose Ends,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Newcleus,
Black Flag,
D'Angelo,
Bluetip,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispian St. Peters,
UT,
Robert Wyatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
FM Einheit,
Lee Hazlewood,
Graham Central Station,
John Cale,
Symarip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
Second Layer,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vainqueur,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker,
Grauzone,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Funky Four + One,
Moss Icon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Age Steppers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David McCallum,
MC5,
Sam Rivers,
Chris Corsano,
Hasil Adkins,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lalann,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pantytec,
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lucky Dragons,
Curtis Mayfield,
Intrusion,
The Neon Judgement,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.