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 South Sudan and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Standells to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roxy Music,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aloha Tigers,
Dual Sessions,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
Ice-T,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soft Cell,
the Slits,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bluetip,
The Index,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
Rapeman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wally Richardson,
Anthony Braxton,
Smog,
David McCallum,
Ponytail,
Pussy Galore,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joey Negro,
Bauhaus,
Malaria!,
Scrapy,
Prince Buster,
The Victims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Happenings,
T. Rex,
Japan,
The J.B.'s,
Yusef Lateef,
The Selecter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Evens,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Dirtbombs,
The Golliwogs,
Agitation Free,
The Pretty Things,
The Birthday Party,
AZ,
Lou Christie,
The Motions,
Neu!,
JFA,
Swell Maps,
The Cure,
X-102,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Monks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.