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 Thailand and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ossler to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sixth Finger,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Velvet Underground,
Rhythm & Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sonics,
Tears for Fears,
The Dead C,
Rosa Yemen,
Oblivians,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Wyatt,
The Martian,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sparks,
Soul II Soul,
John Lydon,
Al Stewart,
Delon & Dalcan,
Roy Ayers,
Grauzone,
The Smiths,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scion,
Underground Resistance,
Jacques Brel,
The Cure,
Massinfluence,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Doors,
Groovy Waters,
Deepchord,
Youth Brigade,
Television,
Cluster,
Judy Mowatt,
Anthony Braxton,
Jerry's Kids,
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
The Fall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Vogues,
Joensuu 1685,
The Trojans,
Au Pairs,
Pole,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Image Ltd.,
Suicide,
Sam Rivers,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Motions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.