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 Norway and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the rap 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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe 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?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Soft Cell,
Grauzone,
Khruangbin,
Laurel Aitken,
Masters at Work,
Joensuu 1685,
Terry Callier,
cv313,
kango's stein massive,
UT,
Josef K,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rosa Yemen,
The United States of America,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Gap Band,
Max Romeo,
Gichy Dan,
48th St. Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Zero Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Johnny Clarke,
The Smiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Deadbeat,
B.T. Express,
Ken Boothe,
Negative Approach,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Associates,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mars,
The Monks,
Lou Christie,
The Victims,
Liliput,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter & Gordon,
ABBA,
New Age Steppers,
The Beau Brummels,
Sparks,
Amazonics,
Gang of Four,
Mo-Dettes,
Blake Baxter,
Al Stewart,
Crooked Eye,
Sugar Minott,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
CMW,
Slave,
Sandy B,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.