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 Portugal and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe 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 Guru Guru to the grunge 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tomorrow,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Crime,
Scan 7,
The Dead C,
Marc Almond,
The Gap Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
D'Angelo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sarah Menescal,
the Sonics,
Yellowson,
World's Most,
The Barracudas,
Supertramp,
R.M.O.,
Section 25,
Steve Hackett,
Television,
H. Thieme,
Sun City Girls,
The Moleskins,
Marvin Gaye,
the Fania All-Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Flag,
Swell Maps,
KRS-One,
Hardrive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Lydon,
Janne Schatter,
Bluetip,
Slave,
The Moody Blues,
Das Ding,
Bill Wells,
Dawn Penn,
The Slackers,
Banda Bassotti,
Cheater Slicks,
UT,
DNA,
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Babytalk,
David Axelrod,
Man Parrish,
Albert Ayler,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sight & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
T.S.O.L.,
Thee Headcoats,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.