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 Chile and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Detroit Cobras to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Warsaw,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Litter,
Dead Boys,
June Days,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alton Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Teasers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nico,
Alphaville,
Cymande,
Blossom Toes,
Jandek,
Kerrie Biddell,
Newcleus,
Ohio Players,
The Blues Magoos,
One Last Wish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fad Gadget,
Bang On A Can,
Electric Prunes,
Das Ding,
Funky Four + One,
Aloha Tigers,
The Offenders,
Flash Fearless,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tubeway Army,
The Stooges,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pulsallama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Icehouse,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Happenings,
U.S. Maple,
Khruangbin,
Kayak,
The Golliwogs,
Prince Buster,
Stiv Bators,
Derrick May,
Jeff Lynne,
Subhumans,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soft Machine,
Pussy Galore,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.