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 Zimbabwe and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Parry Music to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Theoretical Girls,
Babytalk,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
Lyres,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Green,
Ponytail,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nico,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funkadelic,
Quantec,
The Human League,
Jandek,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sixth Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
Symarip,
kango's stein massive,
Young Marble Giants,
Mad Mike,
Stetsasonic,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Starr,
Los Fastidios,
The Offenders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gap Band,
The Durutti Column,
The Names,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Raincoats,
The Moleskins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cure,
Can,
David McCallum,
The Pop Group,
Hashim,
Sex Pistols,
Eric Dolphy,
Sandy B,
Cymande,
Jeff Lynne,
Radio Birdman,
Glenn Branca,
Chrome,
Steve Hackett,
Don Cherry,
Sugar Minott,
Josef K,
The Birthday Party,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.