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 Slovakia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Jacob Miller to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Rotary Connection,
Organ,
Mad Mike,
UT,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Sparks,
ABC,
The United States of America,
The Remains,
Ultravox,
Whodini,
Maleditus Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Infiniti,
The Slackers,
Unwound,
kango's stein massive,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tim Buckley,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pole,
Bad Manners,
Thompson Twins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sam Rivers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smoke,
Wings,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roxy Music,
Jawbox,
Jeff Lynne,
Blossom Toes,
Alison Limerick,
the Sonics,
Pulsallama,
Joe Finger,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Can,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nick Fraelich,
T. Rex,
Smog,
Fatback Band,
Newcleus,
Marmalade,
Rapeman,
Donny Hathaway,
Main Source,
Scion,
the Normal,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeff Mills,
Alton Ellis,
Moebius,
Mr. Review,
Surgeon,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.