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 Marshall Islands and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grime 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Funky Four + One,
Roger Hodgson,
Outsiders,
10cc,
Liliput,
The Misunderstood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Oneida,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marine Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
D'Angelo,
Q65,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Stiv Bators,
T. Rex,
The Dead C,
The Modern Lovers,
Procol Harum,
Ponytail,
Mantronix,
Rhythm & Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Yazoo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Flash Fearless,
X-101,
Visage,
Glenn Branca,
Faust,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siglo XX,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott Heron,
John Coltrane,
Tim Buckley,
Arcadia,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Vogues,
Chris Corsano,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Magazine,
Soulsonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Howard Jones,
Arthur Verocai,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.