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 Georgia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Brand Nubian to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Letta Mbulu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
Average White Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultravox,
The United States of America,
Harmonia,
Agitation Free,
Graham Central Station,
the Swans,
Q and Not U,
Minutemen,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Popol Vuh,
Marc Almond,
Absolute Body Control,
Tim Buckley,
Glambeats Corp.,
Erykah Badu,
ABC,
The Red Krayola,
Rod Modell,
Brand Nubian,
The New Christs,
Maurizio,
The Kinks,
Section 25,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Porter Ricks,
Eddi Front,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker,
Kenny Larkin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Von Mondo,
The Monks,
Swell Maps,
Radiohead,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
Wings,
Jeru the Damaja,
Reagan Youth,
Marmalade,
The Skatalites,
Neu!,
Susan Cadogan,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
Moss Icon,
U.S. Maple,
Isaac Hayes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Excepter,
Al Stewart,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eve St. Jones,
Sound Behaviour,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.