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 Norway and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Nirvana to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Derrick May,
Joensuu 1685,
Lindisfarne,
Japan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Birthday Party,
June Days,
Agitation Free,
K-Klass,
Royal Trux,
Graham Central Station,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Foxx,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
PIL,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monochrome Set,
The Electric Prunes,
The Raincoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Babytalk,
48th St. Collective,
The Pop Group,
Quantec,
Organ,
8 Eyed Spy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stereo Dub,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Knickerbockers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Stooges,
Robert Görl,
The Angels of Light,
Swell Maps,
Groovy Waters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Detroit Cobras,
Roger Hodgson,
Anthony Braxton,
Steve Hackett,
Guru Guru,
Y Pants,
Hashim,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Porter Ricks,
Fela Kuti,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minutemen,
June of 44,
Scan 7,
Deakin,
Ultravox,
A Certain Ratio,
Eddi Front,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.