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 Cuba and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Michael McDonald 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 Fear to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Khruangbin,
Davy DMX,
The Slackers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
John Holt,
Hoover,
Black Bananas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marvin Gaye,
China Crisis,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fire Engines,
Spandau Ballet,
The Human League,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sound Behaviour,
Symarip,
Peter & Gordon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Smooth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wire,
T. Rex,
Duran Duran,
Ludus,
These Immortal Souls,
Surgeon,
Talk Talk,
The Gladiators,
Idris Muhammad,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Make Up,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Moebius,
Neu!,
Jeff Mills,
Skaos,
Motorama,
One Last Wish,
Skarface,
Franke,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blake Baxter,
Matthew Halsall,
Banda Bassotti,
Nirvana,
Amon Düül,
EPMD,
Monks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Smoke,
Inner City,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.