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 Angola and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 dance 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Clear Light,
Charles Mingus,
Ituana,
Matthew Halsall,
Swans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ronan,
Don Cherry,
Talk Talk,
Grey Daturas,
Donny Hathaway,
Scion,
Amon Düül,
Hoover,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Shoche,
The Beau Brummels,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eli Mardock,
Pulsallama,
Moby Grape,
Black Flag,
The Sound,
Tom Boy,
Godley & Creme,
The Tremeloes,
The Skatalites,
Iggy Pop,
Audionom,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Swell Maps,
Marvin Gaye,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rites of Spring,
The Stooges,
Loose Ends,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skarface,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
This Heat,
Slick Rick,
Jerry's Kids,
Peter & Gordon,
June Days,
Mission of Burma,
The Buckinghams,
The Gories,
The Grass Roots,
Kaleidoscope,
The Leaves,
a-ha,
Black Pus,
Tubeway Army,
The Blackbyrds,
Bob Dylan,
Mark Hollis,
The Evens,
Lungfish,
The Busters,
The Neon Judgement,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.