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 Comoros and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare 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 Buzzcocks to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anakelly,
Joensuu 1685,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pere Ubu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
Simply Red,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Throbbing Gristle,
Prince Buster,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Dirtbombs,
Colin Newman,
Drexciya,
Pussy Galore,
Black Bananas,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David Bowie,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cal Tjader,
The Blackbyrds,
Funky Four + One,
Sexual Harrassment,
Spoonie Gee,
Franke,
Grey Daturas,
Johnny Clarke,
DJ Sneak,
the Bar-Kays,
The Vogues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Victims,
Josef K,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Half Japanese,
the Normal,
The Barracudas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gladiators,
The Raincoats,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Star Department,
Visage,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.