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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 X-Ray Spex to the rock 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and an organ 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 arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Howard Jones,
Johnny Osbourne,
Suburban Knight,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Rotary Connection,
Pulsallama,
U.S. Maple,
Peter and Kerry,
The Angels of Light,
These Immortal Souls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nation of Ulysses,
8 Eyed Spy,
Faust,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Bar-Kays,
The Grass Roots,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Q65,
Prince Buster,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick May,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minnie Riperton,
Porter Ricks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Machine,
Bauhaus,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Raincoats,
Robert Wyatt,
Kas Product,
The Pop Group,
Groovy Waters,
Japan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
The Misunderstood,
Guru Guru,
Sam Rivers,
Scratch Acid,
Blake Baxter,
LL Cool J,
Pantaleimon,
Arcadia,
Dark Day,
Pagans,
The Dirtbombs,
Nik Kershaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Smog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.