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 Vanuatu and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Soft Cell to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Zapp,
La Düsseldorf,
U.S. Maple,
Y Pants,
Tubeway Army,
The Durutti Column,
ABBA,
The Fortunes,
Wally Richardson,
These Immortal Souls,
The Smiths,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Scott Walker,
Joy Division,
Television Personalities,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Reed,
Massinfluence,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sun City Girls,
Bauhaus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ice-T,
Erasure,
Maleditus Sound,
The Victims,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Young Marble Giants,
Groovy Waters,
H. Thieme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pere Ubu,
Byron Stingily,
Ituana,
The Wake,
Harmonia,
Icehouse,
Juan Atkins,
Wire,
Tropical Tobacco,
David Axelrod,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
EPMD,
The Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cameo,
Radiohead,
The Busters,
Rod Modell,
Sister Nancy,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
David McCallum,
Hardrive,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.