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 Ireland and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 CMW to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Minny Pops,
Rakim,
Stiv Bators,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Pop Group,
Al Stewart,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brass Construction,
Black Bananas,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultra Naté,
Urselle,
Organ,
The Invisible,
Cecil Taylor,
Wasted Youth,
Hashim,
Scion,
Gang Starr,
Subhumans,
Lightning Bolt,
Marmalade,
Grauzone,
Aaron Thompson,
Magma,
Drexciya,
Eric Dolphy,
Warren Ellis,
Lyres,
Skarface,
Marvin Gaye,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Germs,
a-ha,
Johnny Osbourne,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Lynne,
Derrick Morgan,
Sound Behaviour,
Scratch Acid,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thompson Twins,
The Happenings,
Con Funk Shun,
Patti Smith,
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
Kurtis Blow,
Soulsonic Force,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scientists,
Aloha Tigers,
The Victims,
Tommy Roe,
PIL,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skaos,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.