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 Nepal and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Sight & Sound to the punk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
Faust,
Roxette,
A Certain Ratio,
Cheater Slicks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Circle Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Schoolly D,
Nico,
the Human League,
Sixth Finger,
Television Personalities,
The Electric Prunes,
Porter Ricks,
Terry Callier,
Patti Smith,
Hashim,
Isaac Hayes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
Fatback Band,
The Seeds,
David McCallum,
Stereo Dub,
Gerry Rafferty,
Television,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marvin Gaye,
Derrick May,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Prunes,
UT,
cv313,
Negative Approach,
Aswad,
Quadrant,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Misunderstood,
The Names,
Moss Icon,
Peter and Kerry,
Technova,
The Doobie Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Velvet Underground,
Sällskapet,
Sun City Girls,
X-102,
Lindisfarne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Essential Logic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.