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 Guyana and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the punk 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Wire,
The Knickerbockers,
Marine Girls,
U.S. Maple,
Skaos,
Television,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
Audionom,
Japan,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young,
The Sound,
Slick Rick,
The Happenings,
The Gories,
Cal Tjader,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marmalade,
Chris Corsano,
The Toasters,
Brand Nubian,
Slave,
The Blues Magoos,
Quando Quango,
Soul II Soul,
Radio Birdman,
The Real Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
The Standells,
The Dead C,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Surgeon,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nas,
Jacques Brel,
Das Ding,
Scan 7,
KRS-One,
Excepter,
The Fall,
Pantaleimon,
The Neon Judgement,
Fela Kuti,
Moby Grape,
Visage,
Ludus,
The Dirtbombs,
T.S.O.L.,
Vladislav Delay,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Half Japanese,
Con Funk Shun,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.