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 Botswana and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Talk Talk to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Y Pants,
The Raincoats,
Animal Collective,
Peter and Kerry,
Steve Hackett,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yellowson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Kinks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brass Construction,
Robert Görl,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warren Ellis,
Donny Hathaway,
The Selecter,
Yazoo,
Main Source,
China Crisis,
The Neon Judgement,
Kevin Saunderson,
Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aaron Thompson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zero Boys,
CMW,
Darondo,
Erasure,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Star Department,
The Grass Roots,
Henry Cow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Germs,
the Slits,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moebius,
Nils Olav,
The Vogues,
World's Most,
UT,
Tomorrow,
The Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Cell,
Sugar Minott,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül II,
Bad Manners,
Icehouse,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fall,
Pere Ubu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Monochrome Set,
Jacques Brel,
Brothers Johnson,
Television Personalities,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wings,
Charles Mingus,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.