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 Guyana and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Minutemen to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Junior Murvin,
Dennis Brown,
Soul II Soul,
U.S. Maple,
Oblivians,
Brothers Johnson,
the Swans,
Iggy Pop,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cluster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Von Mondo,
Livin' Joy,
The Beau Brummels,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lightning Bolt,
Boredoms,
The Mummies,
Shuggie Otis,
Fela Kuti,
The J.B.'s,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bronski Beat,
Alison Limerick,
Roxette,
The Associates,
CMW,
Banda Bassotti,
Technova,
Franke,
New York Dolls,
These Immortal Souls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Jandek,
Japan,
H. Thieme,
Erasure,
Liliput,
Jeff Lynne,
Godley & Creme,
Thompson Twins,
Heaven 17,
Cybotron,
Excepter,
The Fortunes,
Tubeway Army,
The Blues Magoos,
Gerry Rafferty,
Juan Atkins,
The Moleskins,
Country Teasers,
Swans,
X-Ray Spex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cal Tjader,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.