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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Von Mondo to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Buckinghams,
Alton Ellis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Evens,
The Human League,
Marc Almond,
The Cure,
Blake Baxter,
Alphaville,
Kayak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Laurel Aitken,
Q65,
Warsaw,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Dirtbombs,
Cameo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mr. Review,
Nas,
Juan Atkins,
Mars,
Warren Ellis,
The Last Poets,
Cluster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
Little Man,
the Fania All-Stars,
ABC,
Suicide,
Sandy B,
Second Layer,
R.M.O.,
Alice Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Junior Murvin,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gap Band,
Alison Limerick,
Agent Orange,
The Blues Magoos,
Roy Ayers,
Loose Ends,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rod Modell,
Scientists,
Bauhaus,
In Retrospect,
Dark Day,
Moss Icon,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.