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 Antigua and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Rhythm & Sound to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Last Poets,
The Slits,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Saints,
The Blackbyrds,
Stiv Bators,
David McCallum,
Symarip,
Simply Red,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Stooges,
Fluxion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-101,
Radiopuhelimet,
Masters at Work,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fuzztones,
Gang Starr,
Brass Construction,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aloha Tigers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lalann,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Almond,
Liliput,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Delta 5,
Youth Brigade,
Fela Kuti,
Urselle,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Half Japanese,
Rekid,
Maurizio,
The Divine Comedy,
Excepter,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul II Soul,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Pus,
Sarah Menescal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pierre Henry,
Circle Jerks,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mary Jane Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.