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 Namibia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Agitation Free to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Babytalk,
Derrick Morgan,
Lyres,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The New Christs,
Quando Quango,
The Gun Club,
Surgeon,
Ronnie Foster,
Kenny Larkin,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Stooges,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Byrd,
Sonny Sharrock,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronan,
Rufus Thomas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marmalade,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moby Grape,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
The Searchers,
Television,
Agitation Free,
Tommy Roe,
Camberwell Now,
Schoolly D,
The Evens,
FM Einheit,
Aloha Tigers,
Gichy Dan,
Visage,
Smog,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Smoke,
Tres Demented,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grandmaster Flash,
La Düsseldorf,
T.S.O.L.,
Grauzone,
Soulsonic Force,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scott Walker,
Television Personalities,
The J.B.'s,
Joey Negro,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultra Naté,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.