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 Guinea and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Jimmy McGriff to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chris Corsano,
Aural Exciters,
Essential Logic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Association,
Pulsallama,
Eve St. Jones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
10cc,
Bluetip,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Vogues,
Robert Wyatt,
Connie Case,
Groovy Waters,
Gang Green,
Skaos,
The J.B.'s,
MDC,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Moon,
Yazoo,
Blossom Toes,
D'Angelo,
Animal Collective,
New Order,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantytec,
Roxy Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Freddie Wadling,
Bad Manners,
Skarface,
Joyce Sims,
Massinfluence,
Laurel Aitken,
Loose Ends,
New Age Steppers,
Cymande,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sparks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Gap Band,
Moebius,
Jeff Lynne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sister Nancy,
Piero Umiliani,
Television Personalities,
The Pretty Things,
Ronan,
Wally Richardson,
Yaz,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Gun Club,
Ultra Naté,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.