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 Italy and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 Names to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Don Cherry,
Slick Rick,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Section 25,
Hashim,
Crash Course in Science,
R.M.O.,
Con Funk Shun,
Sight & Sound,
The Tremeloes,
New Order,
Tropical Tobacco,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rotary Connection,
Bluetip,
the Germs,
Matthew Bourne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Glenn Branca,
Model 500,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Lyres,
The Cowsills,
Deepchord,
Country Teasers,
the Association,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New York Dolls,
Fugazi,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grauzone,
Second Layer,
Simply Red,
The Offenders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Görl,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
James White and The Blacks,
Flamin' Groovies,
X-Ray Spex,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Symarip,
The Fortunes,
Bob Dylan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Davy DMX,
Moebius,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Wyatt,
The Sonics,
48th St. Collective,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.