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 Madagascar and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Vladislav Delay to the electroclash 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Reagan Youth,
Vladislav Delay,
Maurizio,
Ituana,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Association,
The Slackers,
Blossom Toes,
Bauhaus,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Knickerbockers,
DJ Style,
The Names,
Johnny Clarke,
The Monks,
Echospace,
Pantytec,
The Barracudas,
Silicon Teens,
Sixth Finger,
Brand Nubian,
Eve St. Jones,
DNA,
Sällskapet,
Alison Limerick,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fortunes,
Jacob Miller,
Yaz,
Sound Behaviour,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kas Product,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eric Copeland,
Dark Day,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Lydon,
New Order,
Blake Baxter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Metal Thangz,
The Gap Band,
Barrington Levy,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Lou Reed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Litter,
Quadrant,
Accadde A,
Marc Almond,
AZ,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.