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 Vietnam and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Surgeon to the jazz 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
The Evens,
The Pretty Things,
Tubeway Army,
Bronski Beat,
Minny Pops,
Unrelated Segments,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Mojo Men,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yazoo,
Fatback Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Tears for Fears,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Cameo,
Davy DMX,
The Busters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Buzzcocks,
Ossler,
A Flock of Seagulls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultra Naté,
June of 44,
Von Mondo,
Main Source,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sister Nancy,
Matthew Halsall,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Misunderstood,
10cc,
Joensuu 1685,
Livin' Joy,
Pulsallama,
Godley & Creme,
Scratch Acid,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Agitation Free,
Judy Mowatt,
Curtis Mayfield,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Byrd,
The Trojans,
Newcleus,
Television,
Soulsonic Force,
Goldenarms,
Funkadelic,
Eric Copeland,
John Foxx,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.