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 Japan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Parry Music to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kayak,
Bad Manners,
ABBA,
Cluster,
The Monochrome Set,
Average White Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joy Division,
the Normal,
Duran Duran,
Easy Going,
The Mojo Men,
Alphaville,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
These Immortal Souls,
Rod Modell,
Supertramp,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Lynne,
cv313,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Bronski Beat,
New Order,
Gichy Dan,
Faust,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minny Pops,
The Electric Prunes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sight & Sound,
Sex Pistols,
X-101,
Maurizio,
Sun City Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Funky Four + One,
Gang of Four,
R.M.O.,
The Selecter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skarface,
H. Thieme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Matthew Bourne,
LL Cool J,
Prince Buster,
Bobby Sherman,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
The Dead C,
Metal Thangz,
Oblivians,
Gastr Del Sol,
CMW,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mark Hollis,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.