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 Croatia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 LL Cool J to the jazz 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
Half Japanese,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Busters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fear,
Todd Terry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
David Axelrod,
Chris Corsano,
Fela Kuti,
Quadrant,
The Fall,
Fat Boys,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Sherman,
Youth Brigade,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantaleimon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Motions,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fire Engines,
The Young Rascals,
Spandau Ballet,
Rites of Spring,
Sound Behaviour,
Fluxion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dark Day,
Gang Green,
Swell Maps,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pharoah Sanders,
a-ha,
Public Enemy,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Icehouse,
Neil Young,
LL Cool J,
Skarface,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Little Man,
Infiniti,
The Remains,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oblivians,
Outsiders,
Arcadia,
Matthew Halsall,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.