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 Sierra Leone and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Moebius to the rap 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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mark Hollis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Essential Logic,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Tremeloes,
MDC,
Pantytec,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sarah Menescal,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mr. Review,
Deakin,
Danielle Patucci,
the Bar-Kays,
Metal Thangz,
Interpol,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erasure,
Darondo,
Arthur Verocai,
Blancmange,
Half Japanese,
Idris Muhammad,
Newcleus,
Godley & Creme,
E-Dancer,
Sister Nancy,
Isaac Hayes,
Soft Machine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
June of 44,
The Fugs,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Sight & Sound,
Eddi Front,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rekid,
Matthew Bourne,
The Offenders,
Shoche,
Eric Dolphy,
The Blackbyrds,
Cameo,
Moby Grape,
The Human League,
Gil Scott Heron,
Parry Music,
Yaz,
Jeff Lynne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
Marmalade,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Christie,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.