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 Benin and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
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 clarinet 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 Marvin Gaye to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Monolake,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wire,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lee Hazlewood,
a-ha,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grey Daturas,
Silicon Teens,
Al Stewart,
China Crisis,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Raincoats,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Human League,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ken Boothe,
L. Decosne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dennis Brown,
Tubeway Army,
Fluxion,
Scrapy,
James White and The Blacks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pantytec,
Roxette,
Alice Coltrane,
The Leaves,
Leonard Cohen,
Marc Almond,
The Buckinghams,
The Martian,
Judy Mowatt,
DJ Style,
Suburban Knight,
Duran Duran,
Nirvana,
Yazoo,
Mars,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terry Callier,
MDC,
Bobby Byrd,
Henry Cow,
The Toasters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Steve Hackett,
Alison Limerick,
The Cowsills,
Roxy Music,
U.S. Maple,
Morten Harket,
Bronski Beat,
The Happenings,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.