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 Samoa and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 organ 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 Kevin Saunderson to the grunge 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Cell,
Roger Hodgson,
X-102,
Amon Düül II,
Ultra Naté,
Kerrie Biddell,
Panda Bear,
Agitation Free,
Half Japanese,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
The Red Krayola,
Moebius,
Tubeway Army,
The Neon Judgement,
Yaz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Youth Brigade,
The Blues Magoos,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Ash Ra Tempel,
LL Cool J,
Eric B and Rakim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Parry Music,
Ossler,
Matthew Halsall,
Chrome,
Mantronix,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Archie Shepp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Second Layer,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Popol Vuh,
Pere Ubu,
E-Dancer,
China Crisis,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Five Americans,
Scientists,
The Fall,
Infiniti,
Bill Wells,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Royal Trux,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Agent Orange,
Peter and Kerry,
James Chance & The Contortions,
La Düsseldorf,
Fatback Band,
Mars,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.