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 Morocco and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 Ken Boothe to the rock 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Massinfluence,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aural Exciters,
Nas,
Gong,
Alison Limerick,
Moby Grape,
Mad Mike,
Rufus Thomas,
China Crisis,
Boz Scaggs,
John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
Kurtis Blow,
Sight & Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Television,
Symarip,
The Buckinghams,
Clear Light,
H. Thieme,
Quantec,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sixth Finger,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Rekid,
Liliput,
Aaron Thompson,
The Standells,
Smog,
Yaz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Whodini,
The Durutti Column,
F. McDonald,
Lightning Bolt,
The Cure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
U.S. Maple,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Associates,
The Last Poets,
The Mummies,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Leonard Cohen,
Los Fastidios,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Radio Birdman,
Tim Buckley,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.