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 Jordan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Dorothy Ashby to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
The Stooges,
The Zeros,
Moebius,
Ultra Naté,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Index,
Prince Buster,
Fat Boys,
Scion,
Pole,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gap Band,
Aswad,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lakeside,
Brass Construction,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Görl,
X-102,
The Smoke,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alison Limerick,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
Japan,
Cal Tjader,
John Foxx,
Maleditus Sound,
Rekid,
Public Enemy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eddi Front,
Scratch Acid,
Joyce Sims,
The Remains,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Radiopuhelimet,
CMW,
The Mojo Men,
Banda Bassotti,
Aural Exciters,
The Wake,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kurtis Blow,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Avey Tare,
Vladislav Delay,
The Black Dice,
MDC,
KRS-One,
a-ha,
One Last Wish,
In Retrospect,
David McCallum,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.