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 Libya and from New York.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joe Finger to the rock 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
The J.B.'s,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Freddie Wadling,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Index,
Gabor Szabo,
Thee Headcoats,
Wally Richardson,
Funky Four + One,
Matthew Halsall,
R.M.O.,
Fad Gadget,
Aaron Thompson,
Zapp,
The Slackers,
Chris & Cosey,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
The Fuzztones,
The Vogues,
Warsaw,
Alice Coltrane,
The Star Department,
Dennis Brown,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
The Moleskins,
Subhumans,
Adolescents,
Letta Mbulu,
The Blackbyrds,
Das Ding,
Roxette,
New Age Steppers,
Soul II Soul,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blossom Toes,
ABC,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Davy DMX,
Crooked Eye,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Iggy Pop,
The Skatalites,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
EPMD,
A Certain Ratio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
Barbara Tucker,
In Retrospect,
Mary Jane Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
Alphaville,
Gerry Rafferty,
Amon Düül,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Swans,
L. Decosne,
Liliput,
Malaria!,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.