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 Sierra Leone and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Andrew Hill to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Stereo Dub,
Model 500,
Qualms,
Duran Duran,
The Cure,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Malaria!,
The Toasters,
Wasted Youth,
The American Breed,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jawbox,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Talk Talk,
The Fugs,
Zero Boys,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tubeway Army,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Saints,
Technova,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Age Steppers,
Joyce Sims,
Bill Near,
The Slits,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Magma,
Lou Reed,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
Camouflage,
Flipper,
Kas Product,
Hardrive,
The Fire Engines,
Blancmange,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Index,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amazonics,
Angry Samoans,
Soulsonic Force,
Tears for Fears,
Vainqueur,
Von Mondo,
Erykah Badu,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mojo Men,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blossom Toes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soft Cell,
The Victims,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.