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 Australia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Con Funk Shun,
X-Ray Spex,
Nico,
Camouflage,
Gerry Rafferty,
Radiohead,
Von Mondo,
The Golliwogs,
Soft Machine,
Make Up,
Electric Prunes,
Pantaleimon,
The Mojo Men,
Whodini,
Panda Bear,
The Victims,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Country Teasers,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Kinks,
a-ha,
FM Einheit,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
Shoche,
The Fugs,
Mad Mike,
Pussy Galore,
Alphaville,
Spoonie Gee,
The Divine Comedy,
Liliput,
Aaron Thompson,
Accadde A,
The Pop Group,
Brand Nubian,
Henry Cow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
8 Eyed Spy,
Buzzcocks,
Bush Tetras,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Five Americans,
Ronan,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Wasted Youth,
Aloha Tigers,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Sherman,
L. Decosne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jerry's Kids,
Y Pants,
Royal Trux,
UT,
Minor Threat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Japan,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.