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 Poland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Hashim to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Marine Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Curtis Mayfield,
Negative Approach,
Aural Exciters,
Little Man,
Yusef Lateef,
A Certain Ratio,
Jandek,
The Selecter,
The Velvet Underground,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Essential Logic,
Rekid,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bob Dylan,
Colin Newman,
The Associates,
Moby Grape,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Smoke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Leaves,
Television,
The Vogues,
Can,
The Move,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Underground Resistance,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ponytail,
Basic Channel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
Aloha Tigers,
Arcadia,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Quando Quango,
UT,
Funky Four + One,
Pussy Galore,
cv313,
Fad Gadget,
Bill Near,
This Heat,
Cymande,
Cal Tjader,
Bluetip,
June Days,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.