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 Comoros and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Normal to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
John Coltrane,
Visage,
Supertramp,
The Five Americans,
Godley & Creme,
Kayak,
Accadde A,
Morten Harket,
Lyres,
Negative Approach,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nico,
Parry Music,
ABC,
The Beau Brummels,
Fear,
Wally Richardson,
LL Cool J,
Zapp,
The Durutti Column,
Howard Jones,
Derrick Morgan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
AZ,
The Last Poets,
Hot Snakes,
Unrelated Segments,
Icehouse,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fatback Band,
Q65,
Rufus Thomas,
David McCallum,
DJ Sneak,
The J.B.'s,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Make Up,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Buckinghams,
Loose Ends,
The Tremeloes,
Underground Resistance,
Kas Product,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Human League,
Eve St. Jones,
Cybotron,
Warsaw,
Pet Shop Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
The Black Dice,
The Mummies,
Scrapy,
Hashim,
Magma,
Neu!,
Outsiders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ituana,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mandrill,
T. Rex,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.