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 Lithuania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet 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 The Moleskins to the rap 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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mad Mike,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gong,
Ten City,
Kenny Larkin,
Crime,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Can,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sparks,
Swans,
Boredoms,
Fad Gadget,
Sound Behaviour,
Reuben Wilson,
Barry Ungar,
Cal Tjader,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nas,
The Invisible,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aural Exciters,
Amon Düül,
Zero Boys,
Mark Hollis,
These Immortal Souls,
Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eurythmics,
Magazine,
Iggy Pop,
Rufus Thomas,
Au Pairs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Erasure,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fuzztones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deakin,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerri Chandler,
Porter Ricks,
kango's stein massive,
Stiv Bators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Fatback Band,
Index,
EPMD,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Black Dice,
The Raincoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.