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 Cyprus and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes 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 Tomorrow 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Arab on Radar,
Cheater Slicks,
Echospace,
Toni Rubio,
Mad Mike,
Anakelly,
Swell Maps,
Average White Band,
Bobby Byrd,
UT,
Panda Bear,
Amon Düül II,
Idris Muhammad,
Nico,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sam Rivers,
Von Mondo,
Eddi Front,
The Red Krayola,
The Angels of Light,
Yazoo,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Morten Harket,
Freddie Wadling,
Dawn Penn,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX,
Electric Prunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brass Construction,
Japan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roxette,
Duran Duran,
Black Bananas,
Sparks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ituana,
Little Man,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aural Exciters,
Spandau Ballet,
The Move,
Josef K,
Second Layer,
Barrington Levy,
Deakin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rites of Spring,
FM Einheit,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
June Days,
Minor Threat,
Nick Fraelich,
Audionom,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Peter and Kerry,
The Standells,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.