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 Palau and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
New Age Steppers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Audionom,
Oneida,
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Parrish,
DJ Style,
Pantaleimon,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
Ten City,
The Fugs,
10cc,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fortunes,
The American Breed,
Roy Ayers,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
the Human League,
Black Bananas,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kaleidoscope,
Crash Course in Science,
Procol Harum,
The Evens,
One Last Wish,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Remains,
Tubeway Army,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Little Man,
Letta Mbulu,
The Toasters,
Neil Young,
Don Cherry,
Hasil Adkins,
Michelle Simonal,
Al Stewart,
Half Japanese,
H. Thieme,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barry Ungar,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
June of 44,
Faraquet,
A Certain Ratio,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kayak,
Suburban Knight,
The Dead C,
Joe Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.