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 United States and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Barrington Levy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Mandrill,
Sound Behaviour,
Sandy B,
Circle Jerks,
Goldenarms,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Copeland,
Hasil Adkins,
Deadbeat,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Ituana,
Ronan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Standells,
Ice-T,
Danielle Patucci,
Rekid,
Minor Threat,
Index,
Faust,
Underground Resistance,
Eli Mardock,
Black Pus,
Echospace,
The Black Dice,
Funky Four + One,
Pussy Galore,
Sun City Girls,
Royal Trux,
Tubeway Army,
Boredoms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gories,
Scott Walker,
Jerry's Kids,
Babytalk,
Suicide,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cybotron,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Newcleus,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sexual Harrassment,
Charles Mingus,
Joe Smooth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pantaleimon,
Sun Ra,
The Associates,
The Real Kids,
The Velvet Underground,
Rod Modell,
Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Suburban Knight,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.