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 Mongolia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Buzzcocks to the punk 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Residents,
Janne Schatter,
Judy Mowatt,
The Busters,
Youth Brigade,
Rufus Thomas,
Johnny Clarke,
Angry Samoans,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soft Cell,
Groovy Waters,
Roger Hodgson,
Tubeway Army,
Siglo XX,
The Kinks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Max Romeo,
The Music Machine,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Unrelated Segments,
Nirvana,
LL Cool J,
New Order,
Warsaw,
The Fuzztones,
Jerry Gold Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fortunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Junior Murvin,
Eve St. Jones,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Roxy Music,
X-102,
Marvin Gaye,
The Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kas Product,
Moebius,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville,
The Offenders,
Tom Boy,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bush Tetras,
Zero Boys,
L. Decosne,
E-Dancer,
Big Daddy Kane,
June of 44,
Howard Jones,
Animal Collective,
Deepchord,
Ludus,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.