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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Roxette to the punk 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Flash Fearless,
Dawn Penn,
Sandy B,
Y Pants,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Sheep,
Pierre Henry,
Morten Harket,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stiv Bators,
Silicon Teens,
Faraquet,
Al Stewart,
The Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Remains,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Technova,
David McCallum,
The Invisible,
Talk Talk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fugazi,
Reagan Youth,
Amazonics,
Derrick Morgan,
Newcleus,
Magma,
Minnie Riperton,
Todd Rundgren,
Lakeside,
Jeff Lynne,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Green,
Toni Rubio,
Kerri Chandler,
Grauzone,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pulsallama,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sixth Finger,
The Monks,
Absolute Body Control,
Television Personalities,
Magazine,
Heaven 17,
Quantec,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aloha Tigers,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
KRS-One,
Ronnie Foster,
Nas,
Bill Near,
Ossler,
X-101,
Hashim,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.