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 Botswana and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron 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 Soulsonic Force to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Duran Duran,
Janne Schatter,
Robert Hood,
Fat Boys,
Clear Light,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Das Ding,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cheater Slicks,
10cc,
Marc Almond,
Iggy Pop,
Bob Dylan,
Darondo,
Moby Grape,
Siglo XX,
Rakim,
The Gun Club,
The Martian,
Letta Mbulu,
Don Cherry,
Peter and Kerry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Quando Quango,
Nico,
Derrick May,
Excepter,
Soulsonic Force,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Harry Pussy,
Jerry's Kids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
Anakelly,
Sam Rivers,
Sexual Harrassment,
One Last Wish,
Chrome,
Henry Cow,
Can,
Wasted Youth,
Adolescents,
Fear,
Bronski Beat,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gichy Dan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gastr Del Sol,
The New Christs,
Pantaleimon,
Accadde A,
Tomorrow,
The Happenings,
Niagra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
David McCallum,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Golliwogs,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.