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 Belgium and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Circle Jerks 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
The American Breed,
Aural Exciters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Godley & Creme,
The Seeds,
Sällskapet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Icehouse,
Youth Brigade,
Fear,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxette,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Kinks,
R.M.O.,
Soft Machine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dual Sessions,
Lindisfarne,
the Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
UT,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Donny Hathaway,
Kayak,
Simply Red,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lyres,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
Altered Images,
Von Mondo,
Urselle,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lou Christie,
Agent Orange,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wasted Youth,
The Gap Band,
Metal Thangz,
One Last Wish,
the Soft Cell,
The Motions,
Bad Manners,
The Vogues,
Banda Bassotti,
Howard Jones,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kas Product,
Q and Not U,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
Fela Kuti,
Main Source,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.