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 Iceland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Radiohead to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Monks,
The Searchers,
Dead Boys,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joensuu 1685,
The Vogues,
The Smoke,
Crime,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
James White and The Blacks,
Bob Dylan,
Massinfluence,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deepchord,
The Fugs,
Mantronix,
Ronnie Foster,
Grauzone,
Scan 7,
Pagans,
Derrick Morgan,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Maleditus Sound,
Lungfish,
Supertramp,
Malaria!,
The Buckinghams,
Saccharine Trust,
Erasure,
The Cure,
The Sonics,
Suburban Knight,
Mad Mike,
Banda Bassotti,
Delta 5,
48th St. Collective,
Ten City,
John Holt,
Cecil Taylor,
Shuggie Otis,
Boredoms,
Angry Samoans,
Groovy Waters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warsaw,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fatback Band,
Terry Callier,
Peter & Gordon,
Bronski Beat,
Royal Trux,
Pulsallama,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lebanon Hanover,
Von Mondo,
Spandau Ballet,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.