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 Syria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Groovy Waters to the disco 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boredoms,
Iggy Pop,
Popol Vuh,
Bang On A Can,
Lightning Bolt,
Pylon,
Camberwell Now,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
Grauzone,
Jacob Miller,
The Kinks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pagans,
Chrome,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marmalade,
John Foxx,
a-ha,
Fluxion,
Roxy Music,
The Blackbyrds,
The United States of America,
Zero Boys,
D'Angelo,
Quantec,
Clear Light,
Quadrant,
The Real Kids,
E-Dancer,
Q65,
Mary Jane Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultra Naté,
The Wake,
Cluster,
Brass Construction,
Sixth Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Supertramp,
The Doors,
Deadbeat,
Japan,
X-Ray Spex,
Al Stewart,
The Doobie Brothers,
Hasil Adkins,
World's Most,
David Axelrod,
OOIOO,
June Days,
Johnny Osbourne,
David Bowie,
Nils Olav,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crooked Eye,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.