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 United Kingdom and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
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 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 B.T. Express to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Alison Limerick,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Make Up,
Reuben Wilson,
Essential Logic,
Mark Hollis,
Slave,
Soul II Soul,
Rotary Connection,
Bill Near,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Johnny Clarke,
Patti Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Evens,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris Corsano,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Neon Judgement,
the Bar-Kays,
Ituana,
The Velvet Underground,
Magma,
Blossom Toes,
The Fortunes,
Organ,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ossler,
F. McDonald,
Sällskapet,
Joy Division,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warren Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Visage,
The Gories,
Yaz,
Rod Modell,
Dead Boys,
Scientists,
Brick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Suicide,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The New Christs,
Ultravox,
Arthur Verocai,
Anakelly,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.