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 Mauritius and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Johnny Osbourne to the punk 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
The Mojo Men,
In Retrospect,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jeru the Damaja,
June of 44,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ornette Coleman,
Metal Thangz,
Bill Near,
Derrick May,
The Selecter,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Divine Comedy,
Godley & Creme,
Wally Richardson,
Outsiders,
Schoolly D,
Marcia Griffiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Wells,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kas Product,
The Dead C,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ossler,
Deakin,
Malaria!,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lyres,
Sällskapet,
Basic Channel,
Ituana,
Slick Rick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Swans,
Fatback Band,
Brass Construction,
Fluxion,
Althea and Donna,
Letta Mbulu,
Todd Terry,
Fugazi,
Camberwell Now,
David McCallum,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warren Ellis,
The Offenders,
Black Bananas,
Parry Music,
Smog,
Blancmange,
The Motions,
Joyce Sims,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.