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 Italy and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Wally Richardson to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Amon Düül II,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jacob Miller,
Wings,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kas Product,
The Skatalites,
Negative Approach,
The Smoke,
Fluxion,
The Index,
Scientists,
Tres Demented,
Charles Mingus,
Toni Rubio,
The Gap Band,
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
The Modern Lovers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arthur Verocai,
Crash Course in Science,
Sixth Finger,
Massinfluence,
Kerri Chandler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Delta 5,
In Retrospect,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Symarip,
Lungfish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ludus,
The Sound,
Lindisfarne,
Talk Talk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Blake Baxter,
The Slits,
Pagans,
David Axelrod,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anakelly,
Bronski Beat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Connie Case,
The Vogues,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Severed Heads,
Hasil Adkins,
Alton Ellis,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.