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 Croatia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 Q and Not U to the crunk 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
10cc,
Kas Product,
Hasil Adkins,
Patti Smith,
The Wake,
Clear Light,
Yellowson,
Easy Going,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
The Doors,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bluetip,
Minnie Riperton,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Bronski Beat,
Nick Fraelich,
The Motions,
The Count Five,
Alison Limerick,
The Blues Magoos,
Surgeon,
Boz Scaggs,
The Slits,
Sun City Girls,
Roger Hodgson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Sheep,
Outsiders,
Iggy Pop,
Newcleus,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neu!,
Terry Callier,
Hoover,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gories,
Donny Hathaway,
Television,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Faust,
AZ,
Interpol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Michelle Simonal,
Toni Rubio,
The Toasters,
Laurel Aitken,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eddi Front,
Avey Tare,
The Grass Roots,
Audionom,
Tropical Tobacco,
Skriet,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Neon Judgement,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.