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 Guatemala and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
June of 44,
Supertramp,
Inner City,
Black Flag,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roxette,
Matthew Bourne,
The Offenders,
Silicon Teens,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric B and Rakim,
Carl Craig,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Slave,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Funky Four + One,
Duran Duran,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
Freddie Wadling,
Adolescents,
a-ha,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Don Cherry,
Easy Going,
Desert Stars,
Barrington Levy,
Clear Light,
UT,
Shuggie Otis,
JFA,
Lindisfarne,
Crispy Ambulance,
Reagan Youth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Q65,
The Wake,
The Birthday Party,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
Bobby Sherman,
Parry Music,
The Monks,
Laurel Aitken,
Bob Dylan,
Royal Trux,
The Tremeloes,
The Grass Roots,
Joy Division,
Fad Gadget,
The Slits,
Joensuu 1685,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Al Stewart,
Junior Murvin,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.