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 United States and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Lindisfarne to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Sixth Finger,
Danielle Patucci,
Circle Jerks,
Nik Kershaw,
Organ,
The Moody Blues,
Section 25,
The Happenings,
MC5,
Icehouse,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deepchord,
The Black Dice,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Babytalk,
Blossom Toes,
PIL,
Buzzcocks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Normal,
The Fortunes,
Zero Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Alarm Clocks,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blues Magoos,
Altered Images,
Swell Maps,
The Five Americans,
Popol Vuh,
Eden Ahbez,
EPMD,
DJ Sneak,
Lyres,
Country Teasers,
Erykah Badu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gladiators,
Anthony Braxton,
X-101,
Janne Schatter,
Dark Day,
James White and The Blacks,
Desert Stars,
Kaleidoscope,
Bronski Beat,
Essential Logic,
Sällskapet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Young Rascals,
AZ,
Fluxion,
Angry Samoans,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.