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 Sri Lanka and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Excepter to the disco 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stockholm Monsters,
David McCallum,
Bobby Womack,
Qualms,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Piero Umiliani,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-Ray Spex,
Bluetip,
Grey Daturas,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fortunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Roxy Music,
Malaria!,
Technova,
Los Fastidios,
Ice-T,
U.S. Maple,
Marvin Gaye,
Main Source,
Rosa Yemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
Archie Shepp,
Delta 5,
The Moleskins,
Grandmaster Flash,
CMW,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Prunes,
Ossler,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
FM Einheit,
Ronnie Foster,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Althea and Donna,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Erasure,
Steve Hackett,
Al Stewart,
Cecil Taylor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Joe Smooth,
Gong,
PIL,
Crime,
Lindisfarne,
Cybotron,
T.S.O.L.,
Susan Cadogan,
The Residents,
Pantytec,
Royal Trux,
Maurizio,
Severed Heads,
Rufus Thomas,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.