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 Iceland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eddi Front to the grunge 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rotary Connection,
Yellowson,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
EPMD,
Piero Umiliani,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mr. Review,
Reuben Wilson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
Sight & Sound,
Accadde A,
Brick,
The Stooges,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soft Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gladiators,
The Evens,
JFA,
Warsaw,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Velvet Underground,
Liliput,
Soul II Soul,
Rekid,
Ultra Naté,
X-101,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fugs,
Barry Ungar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Maleditus Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yaz,
The Pop Group,
Freddie Wadling,
H. Thieme,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gap Band,
Faraquet,
Unrelated Segments,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
These Immortal Souls,
MDC,
Supertramp,
Silicon Teens,
ABBA,
Cal Tjader,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Arcadia,
Q65,
Prince Buster,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bush Tetras,
Boogie Down Productions,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.