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 Bulgaria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Neon Judgement to the crunk 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Half Japanese,
Con Funk Shun,
Donny Hathaway,
The Real Kids,
Wings,
The Monochrome Set,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Womack,
The Black Dice,
Max Romeo,
Idris Muhammad,
Amon Düül II,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Laurel Aitken,
Cal Tjader,
Mark Hollis,
Blossom Toes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Intrusion,
Suicide,
Bang On A Can,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronnie Foster,
Faraquet,
Matthew Halsall,
The Human League,
June Days,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New York Dolls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Davy DMX,
Scrapy,
Toni Rubio,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jacob Miller,
D'Angelo,
Pole,
Chrome,
Q65,
Gang Green,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scientists,
Khruangbin,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rosa Yemen,
Audionom,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aural Exciters,
Fugazi,
Mad Mike,
Drexciya,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.