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 Brunei and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sixth Finger to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
The Index,
Half Japanese,
The Skatalites,
Eric Dolphy,
Fela Kuti,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Motions,
The Gap Band,
Tim Buckley,
Das Ding,
Fluxion,
Buzzcocks,
Deadbeat,
Nick Fraelich,
Royal Trux,
EPMD,
The Happenings,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Talk Talk,
Eden Ahbez,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Standells,
Wolf Eyes,
The Searchers,
Newcleus,
Byron Stingily,
Schoolly D,
Alphaville,
Scientists,
New York Dolls,
Amazonics,
Kayak,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Cybotron,
OOIOO,
Wire,
Easy Going,
Arcadia,
Warsaw,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bang On A Can,
The Pretty Things,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Starr,
Bobby Sherman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bush Tetras,
The J.B.'s,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neu!,
Mark Hollis,
The Moody Blues,
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
John Holt,
Zapp,
The Pop Group,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.