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 Malawi and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Duran Duran to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
Soul II Soul,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aural Exciters,
Boz Scaggs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Nico,
Supertramp,
The Moleskins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scientists,
Joey Negro,
the Slits,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cowsills,
Michelle Simonal,
Animal Collective,
Jacques Brel,
Mr. Review,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Martian,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lyres,
Cheater Slicks,
Qualms,
Dennis Brown,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
Flash Fearless,
cv313,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxette,
Desert Stars,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deepchord,
New Order,
Infiniti,
Kerri Chandler,
Drexciya,
Nas,
Moss Icon,
Dawn Penn,
The Fortunes,
Second Layer,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stereo Dub,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hoover,
The Selecter,
Fela Kuti,
Crash Course in Science,
Stiv Bators,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.