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 Italy and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Marmalade to the crunk 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flipper,
Black Moon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick May,
Ken Boothe,
a-ha,
Ossler,
Quantec,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Accadde A,
Mary Jane Girls,
LL Cool J,
Silicon Teens,
Y Pants,
Josef K,
The Star Department,
The Slits,
Morten Harket,
Rod Modell,
Kaleidoscope,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barrington Levy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Toni Rubio,
Yaz,
AZ,
Sight & Sound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
10cc,
Lyres,
Arthur Verocai,
Grandmaster Flash,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Young Rascals,
John Foxx,
Sandy B,
the Human League,
Gil Scott Heron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Smog,
Chris & Cosey,
Los Fastidios,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cybotron,
Chrome,
Stetsasonic,
Youth Brigade,
These Immortal Souls,
Yazoo,
Public Enemy,
Monks,
Eurythmics,
Sam Rivers,
John Holt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.