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 Ireland and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 The Misunderstood to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
The Walker Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Reagan Youth,
Faust,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
ABC,
Silicon Teens,
The Golliwogs,
Suicide,
Camberwell Now,
Cameo,
The Residents,
Jawbox,
The Wake,
Talk Talk,
Brand Nubian,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Copeland,
Cluster,
Procol Harum,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Slits,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Neon Judgement,
The Techniques,
Yusef Lateef,
Marc Almond,
Drexciya,
Ornette Coleman,
Derrick May,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Moleskins,
Susan Cadogan,
Hoover,
Gil Scott Heron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
Brass Construction,
Black Moon,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magma,
Bootsy Collins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Girls At Our Best!,
Excepter,
Quadrant,
The Gladiators,
Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Todd Terry,
The Index,
The Leaves,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eurythmics,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.