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 Malaysia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Public Enemy to the jazz 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Malaria!,
Yellowson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Niagra,
Black Bananas,
B.T. Express,
John Cale,
Easy Going,
The Count Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Organ,
Sight & Sound,
Surgeon,
Royal Trux,
Tim Buckley,
The Walker Brothers,
The Golliwogs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tropical Tobacco,
Little Man,
Lungfish,
Hashim,
Cameo,
Bobby Byrd,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mad Mike,
The Mummies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
The Standells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Steve Hackett,
Oblivians,
Fad Gadget,
Magma,
Liliput,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Don Cherry,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ituana,
Bronski Beat,
Inner City,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Adolescents,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fuzztones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Youth Brigade,
Whodini,
The Fortunes,
K-Klass,
Gichy Dan,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.