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 Uruguay and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Pierre Henry to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Be Bop Deluxe,
F. McDonald,
the Normal,
Eurythmics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harmonia,
LL Cool J,
World's Most,
Man Parrish,
the Association,
Ultimate Spinach,
Funkadelic,
Mark Hollis,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gories,
Lalann,
Tommy Roe,
The Trojans,
The Doors,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mars,
Rites of Spring,
Barrington Levy,
The Associates,
Dead Boys,
Average White Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Happenings,
Altered Images,
Aloha Tigers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Piero Umiliani,
A Certain Ratio,
David McCallum,
The Fortunes,
The Index,
Bluetip,
Iggy Pop,
Nico,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Steve Hackett,
Brick,
The Seeds,
Cymande,
The Leaves,
The Misunderstood,
Moebius,
Section 25,
Outsiders,
Stiv Bators,
Infiniti,
Groovy Waters,
Sixth Finger,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.