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 Vanuatu and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron 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 Morten Harket to the dance 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Wings,
The Sonics,
Peter and Kerry,
X-101,
Sight & Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Fugazi,
Ice-T,
The Cowsills,
Arcadia,
ABC,
Janne Schatter,
Boz Scaggs,
Connie Case,
Slick Rick,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sällskapet,
Roy Ayers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Panda Bear,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cramps,
Warren Ellis,
Marc Almond,
U.S. Maple,
Siglo XX,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arthur Verocai,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joy Division,
Roger Hodgson,
Rites of Spring,
Echospace,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Banda Bassotti,
Excepter,
JFA,
Bootsy Collins,
Roxette,
Nik Kershaw,
Al Stewart,
Clear Light,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Warsaw,
Maleditus Sound,
Delta 5,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marvin Gaye,
Patti Smith,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.