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 Slovakia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Das Ding to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Victims. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Model 500,
Scientists,
Sam Rivers,
Al Stewart,
Tears for Fears,
The Happenings,
The Cure,
Duran Duran,
Warren Ellis,
The Birthday Party,
a-ha,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fortunes,
Ornette Coleman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quadrant,
Alice Coltrane,
Monolake,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
Suicide,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
World's Most,
Dennis Brown,
Television Personalities,
Man Parrish,
The Invisible,
Marshall Jefferson,
Livin' Joy,
Ronan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Grass Roots,
Roy Ayers,
The Fugs,
Tom Boy,
Nick Fraelich,
Arab on Radar,
Guru Guru,
Radiohead,
The Neon Judgement,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Fugazi,
Kenny Larkin,
David McCallum,
Pulsallama,
Davy DMX,
Kas Product,
The Flesh Eaters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Toasters,
the Normal,
Amazonics,
Talk Talk,
Sound Behaviour,
Bootsy Collins,
Camouflage,
Con Funk Shun,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.