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 Germany and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 chamberlin 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 Simply Red to the punk 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Motions,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
Pussy Galore,
T.S.O.L.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mad Mike,
Main Source,
Theoretical Girls,
Pylon,
Barrington Levy,
Drexciya,
the Human League,
Black Bananas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
U.S. Maple,
Bauhaus,
Marvin Gaye,
The J.B.'s,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Neu!,
In Retrospect,
Depeche Mode,
Half Japanese,
Fat Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Motorama,
Funky Four + One,
Marc Almond,
Delta 5,
Barry Ungar,
Make Up,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eli Mardock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jeff Mills,
Ludus,
The Young Rascals,
The Buckinghams,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Rundgren,
Leonard Cohen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Guru Guru,
Monolake,
Japan,
The Gories,
The Neon Judgement,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.