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 Azerbaijan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 The Shadows of Knight to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Scan 7,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
The Misunderstood,
Second Layer,
The Monks,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
DNA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pantaleimon,
The Music Machine,
Pussy Galore,
The Fortunes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rod Modell,
Marine Girls,
X-102,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantytec,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bluetip,
Quadrant,
Barclay James Harvest,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Malaria!,
Black Bananas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aswad,
Electric Prunes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bootsy Collins,
Clear Light,
Infiniti,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Erasure,
Fear,
Amazonics,
One Last Wish,
June of 44,
Blossom Toes,
Kayak,
Monolake,
the Germs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
David McCallum,
Mark Hollis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
Slave,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Newcleus,
John Cale,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eve St. Jones,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visage,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.