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 Taiwan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pet Shop Boys to the grunge 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül,
Amazonics,
The Happenings,
Harry Pussy,
Godley & Creme,
Sparks,
Massinfluence,
Matthew Halsall,
Siglo XX,
Franke,
Black Moon,
Hashim,
Q and Not U,
Kayak,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Mad Mike,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bill Wells,
Model 500,
Bizarre Inc.,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Machine,
One Last Wish,
The Move,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Flipper,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
The Dirtbombs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shuggie Otis,
Suicide,
FM Einheit,
The Sonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Derrick Morgan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
China Crisis,
Susan Cadogan,
Joyce Sims,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
T.S.O.L.,
Sarah Menescal,
DNA,
The Slits,
Peter and Kerry,
The Angels of Light,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Bar-Kays,
Roxy Music,
CMW,
Intrusion,
Bad Manners,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.