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 Iran and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Yazoo to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Oblivians,
Soft Machine,
Byron Stingily,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Matthew Bourne,
OOIOO,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Tres Demented,
Steve Hackett,
D'Angelo,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Swell Maps,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Television,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Young Rascals,
Godley & Creme,
Pet Shop Boys,
Harry Pussy,
the Germs,
Symarip,
Big Daddy Kane,
Metal Thangz,
Glambeats Corp.,
Porter Ricks,
Average White Band,
The Fortunes,
Maleditus Sound,
Second Layer,
R.M.O.,
Quantec,
Soulsonic Force,
Harmonia,
Nik Kershaw,
Bootsy Collins,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Almond,
Skarface,
The Doors,
The Knickerbockers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Visage,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fire Engines,
Essential Logic,
Mad Mike,
Fat Boys,
Country Teasers,
Hardrive,
Agitation Free,
Lucky Dragons,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erasure,
Mission of Burma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.