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 Serbia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Dawn Penn to the funk 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Piero Umiliani,
Visage,
Mo-Dettes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kenny Larkin,
Terry Callier,
Magazine,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Junior Murvin,
The Moody Blues,
Sarah Menescal,
Agitation Free,
Idris Muhammad,
Kayak,
Bauhaus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Harmonia,
Accadde A,
Marc Almond,
ABBA,
Dark Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
10cc,
the Human League,
kango's stein massive,
Second Layer,
Gregory Isaacs,
B.T. Express,
Boredoms,
Monks,
Johnny Clarke,
Sugar Minott,
Isaac Hayes,
The Blackbyrds,
Qualms,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Circle Jerks,
DJ Sneak,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Sparks,
Clear Light,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deadbeat,
Von Mondo,
Procol Harum,
The Grass Roots,
Tom Boy,
Rakim,
Soul Sonic Force,
Morten Harket,
EPMD,
Desert Stars,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.