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 Kazakhstan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
John Lydon,
The Names,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Maleditus Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bush Tetras,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare,
Kool Moe Dee,
Little Man,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scott Walker,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Womack,
The Mojo Men,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Wake,
Depeche Mode,
The Residents,
Man Parrish,
The Slackers,
Gong,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pantytec,
Aaron Thompson,
Neil Young,
Colin Newman,
The Monks,
Unwound,
The Velvet Underground,
Minutemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Main Source,
The Remains,
Deadbeat,
Lindisfarne,
Sparks,
The Fire Engines,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Byrd,
Scan 7,
Visage,
This Heat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tom Boy,
Quantec,
The Gun Club,
The Associates,
The Fortunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Organ,
Lyres,
Robert Görl,
Funkadelic,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.