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 Austria and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Searchers to the electroclash 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Little Man,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Anakelly,
Nico,
Carl Craig,
Ken Boothe,
Altered Images,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Isaac Hayes,
the Germs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Accadde A,
DJ Style,
Todd Terry,
The Standells,
June of 44,
Saccharine Trust,
The Barracudas,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
John Coltrane,
Jeff Lynne,
Lungfish,
New Order,
David McCallum,
Peter and Kerry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Womack,
Albert Ayler,
Lalo Schifrin,
Unwound,
Amon Düül II,
Essential Logic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ohio Players,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scratch Acid,
The Velvet Underground,
La Düsseldorf,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Moebius,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Shadows of Knight,
Drexciya,
Thee Headcoats,
Monolake,
X-102,
Deepchord,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gastr Del Sol,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Mills,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.