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 Mozambique and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Tears for Fears,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Saccharine Trust,
Country Teasers,
Scrapy,
Zapp,
Trumans Water,
AZ,
Junior Murvin,
Alphaville,
Pantaleimon,
Steve Hackett,
Fort Wilson Riot,
China Crisis,
Maurizio,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mary Jane Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gabor Szabo,
Arab on Radar,
David McCallum,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nico,
Robert Wyatt,
Minnie Riperton,
Sound Behaviour,
New Order,
X-102,
Blancmange,
Iggy Pop,
the Human League,
Chrome,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Josef K,
Johnny Osbourne,
Deakin,
Charles Mingus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Blackbyrds,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Grass Roots,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerrie Biddell,
Letta Mbulu,
Schoolly D,
Newcleus,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Foxx,
Khruangbin,
Thompson Twins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aswad,
Fugazi,
Grauzone,
Sister Nancy,
Can,
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.