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 Bolivia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar 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 Marc Almond to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Colin Newman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Robert Görl,
Kool Moe Dee,
Spandau Ballet,
Fluxion,
Erykah Badu,
Yaz,
Rites of Spring,
Sparks,
Thompson Twins,
The New Christs,
Bill Wells,
Ken Boothe,
Godley & Creme,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Ten City,
Black Flag,
Lower 48,
Michelle Simonal,
The Happenings,
The Pretty Things,
Joe Finger,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Evens,
Black Moon,
Ronnie Foster,
Livin' Joy,
John Coltrane,
the Human League,
a-ha,
The Golliwogs,
Adolescents,
Joey Negro,
Quadrant,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Alton Ellis,
Pierre Henry,
Dennis Brown,
Jimmy McGriff,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kayak,
Oblivians,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Youth Brigade,
Bush Tetras,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed,
Joyce Sims,
The Stooges,
This Heat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grauzone,
Jawbox,
Siglo XX,
The Offenders,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.