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 Denmark and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Sunsets and Hearts to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Mars,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bill Wells,
Symarip,
The Walker Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
June Days,
Ultra Naté,
Skarface,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joey Negro,
Eden Ahbez,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Christie,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tom Boy,
Junior Murvin,
The Techniques,
Isaac Hayes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
La Düsseldorf,
Deakin,
Sun Ra,
The Knickerbockers,
In Retrospect,
Bad Manners,
Ultravox,
Lalo Schifrin,
The J.B.'s,
Harry Pussy,
Radio Birdman,
Carl Craig,
The Happenings,
Bootsy Collins,
Al Stewart,
Pantaleimon,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Womack,
Schoolly D,
Pere Ubu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Audionom,
Thee Headcoats,
Easy Going,
Todd Rundgren,
Glenn Branca,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
Can,
Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Names,
Laurel Aitken,
X-102,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Move,
Nas,
The Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Cal Tjader,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.