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 Mongolia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Avey Tare to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Roxy Music,
Amon Düül,
Moby Grape,
Lakeside,
Mo-Dettes,
Donny Hathaway,
Rufus Thomas,
Lungfish,
Kurtis Blow,
Suburban Knight,
Royal Trux,
Absolute Body Control,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soft Machine,
Zapp,
Mark Hollis,
Sam Rivers,
Minnie Riperton,
Desert Stars,
The Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Mars,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Detroit Cobras,
Erasure,
The Trojans,
Blake Baxter,
Albert Ayler,
Nirvana,
Freddie Wadling,
Sister Nancy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mission of Burma,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yellowson,
Lou Reed,
The Pretty Things,
Q and Not U,
Oneida,
the Swans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Neon Judgement,
Aural Exciters,
The Leaves,
The Gladiators,
Ludus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Raincoats,
Masters at Work,
Rakim,
Alphaville,
The Alarm Clocks,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
This Heat,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.