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 Lebanon and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pulsallama to the funk 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
Average White Band,
The Pretty Things,
Gichy Dan,
Quantec,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Technova,
T. Rex,
David Bowie,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
Q65,
Negative Approach,
Johnny Clarke,
Motorama,
Zapp,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reuben Wilson,
Leonard Cohen,
Flamin' Groovies,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monolake,
Tubeway Army,
Duran Duran,
China Crisis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camberwell Now,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MC5,
Dark Day,
Pagans,
Matthew Bourne,
Audionom,
Ohio Players,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rekid,
The Tremeloes,
Todd Terry,
Jeru the Damaja,
Second Layer,
The Fall,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Seeds,
Rod Modell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Metal Thangz,
Clear Light,
Marc Almond,
Black Sheep,
Howard Jones,
Tomorrow,
Graham Central Station,
Godley & Creme,
L. Decosne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Alphaville,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.