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 Mongolia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 La Düsseldorf to the rock 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Second Layer,
Camberwell Now,
Dawn Penn,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Durutti Column,
The Cramps,
Scan 7,
Yusef Lateef,
Robert Hood,
Bootsy Collins,
Shuggie Otis,
L. Decosne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hasil Adkins,
Connie Case,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scientists,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tres Demented,
Rakim,
The Remains,
The Dead C,
The Litter,
MDC,
Gong,
Moss Icon,
Barbara Tucker,
Young Marble Giants,
Skriet,
Eli Mardock,
The Detroit Cobras,
Patti Smith,
Graham Central Station,
Excepter,
The Neon Judgement,
Mo-Dettes,
Joensuu 1685,
ABBA,
Byron Stingily,
Sandy B,
Ronnie Foster,
Technova,
Minor Threat,
Flipper,
Janne Schatter,
Wire,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare,
Blossom Toes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
The Kinks,
Bobby Byrd,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Associates,
World's Most,
The Gories,
John Lydon,
Grey Daturas,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.