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 Morocco and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
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 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 Gang Green 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Knickerbockers,
Au Pairs,
Fluxion,
Franke,
The Blackbyrds,
Grauzone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Robert Hood,
Whodini,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ultra Naté,
The Electric Prunes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Cure,
Yusef Lateef,
Angry Samoans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scrapy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Magazine,
The Happenings,
Ornette Coleman,
Sällskapet,
Dave Gahan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
JFA,
The Techniques,
Ituana,
Severed Heads,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter & Gordon,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
The Index,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sonic Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Thompson Twins,
Janne Schatter,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Average White Band,
Accadde A,
The Litter,
Bush Tetras,
Blancmange,
Cybotron,
Sister Nancy,
Todd Rundgren,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Animal Collective,
These Immortal Souls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Electric Prunes,
10cc,
Masters at Work,
Rites of Spring,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.