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 Somalia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the rap 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Cecil Taylor,
Nas,
Jacques Brel,
Jerry's Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Reed,
Harmonia,
Charles Mingus,
The Pretty Things,
Babytalk,
Mission of Burma,
Barbara Tucker,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ten City,
Television Personalities,
Black Moon,
Dennis Brown,
Jesper Dahlback,
World's Most,
The Residents,
AZ,
Prince Buster,
Suicide,
The Moleskins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mantronix,
The Martian,
Hoover,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marmalade,
The United States of America,
F. McDonald,
Skarface,
X-101,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Livin' Joy,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Halsall,
Scan 7,
Japan,
Vainqueur,
Ohio Players,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crash Course in Science,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lalo Schifrin,
Faraquet,
Warren Ellis,
Minutemen,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Hill,
Trumans Water,
Traffic Nightmare,
Arcadia,
R.M.O.,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.