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 Cambodia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 clarinet 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 Lou Reed to the rock 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
The Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blake Baxter,
Ronnie Foster,
Basic Channel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minor Threat,
Oblivians,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doors,
Accadde A,
Con Funk Shun,
the Fania All-Stars,
a-ha,
Cluster,
New York Dolls,
John Lydon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Darondo,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quando Quango,
Joe Finger,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mad Mike,
The Sonics,
Skaos,
Vladislav Delay,
This Heat,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
Wasted Youth,
Sarah Menescal,
Eden Ahbez,
Alphaville,
Jacob Miller,
Technova,
Inner City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun City Girls,
Stetsasonic,
The Count Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slackers,
CMW,
Von Mondo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Popol Vuh,
The Mummies,
Derrick Morgan,
Monks,
Aloha Tigers,
Icehouse,
Patti Smith,
Eli Mardock,
The Velvet Underground,
The Evens,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.