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 Israel and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Los Fastidios,
Subhumans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Beau Brummels,
Junior Murvin,
The Young Rascals,
Kas Product,
Main Source,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Doors,
Alice Coltrane,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Toasters,
Underground Resistance,
DNA,
Mars,
The Blackbyrds,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gun Club,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Simply Red,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rites of Spring,
China Crisis,
The Moleskins,
Yusef Lateef,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lucky Dragons,
Massinfluence,
Sugar Minott,
Godley & Creme,
Scion,
The Blues Magoos,
Silicon Teens,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smiths,
Make Up,
Jacques Brel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Cheater Slicks,
Quantec,
David Bowie,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sarah Menescal,
OOIOO,
X-101,
The Raincoats,
Max Romeo,
The J.B.'s,
The Misunderstood,
Sam Rivers,
The Last Poets,
The American Breed,
Crooked Eye,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.