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 Peru and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Selecter to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Index,
Little Man,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Robert Wyatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Excepter,
Altered Images,
The Gladiators,
Davy DMX,
Howard Jones,
Maurizio,
The Shadows of Knight,
Arab on Radar,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Cymande,
ABC,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cowsills,
The Barracudas,
Sam Rivers,
Junior Murvin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Funkadelic,
Ice-T,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yellowson,
Skaos,
The Smiths,
Skarface,
Warren Ellis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thee Headcoats,
The Searchers,
Panda Bear,
Gabor Szabo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joyce Sims,
Shuggie Otis,
Traffic Nightmare,
In Retrospect,
X-102,
Ituana,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Audionom,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Livin' Joy,
Mr. Review,
Fad Gadget,
Bad Manners,
Massinfluence,
Deadbeat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Man Eating Sloth,
EPMD,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.