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 Taiwan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Chrome,
David Axelrod,
Marine Girls,
the Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Yazoo,
The Invisible,
Mantronix,
The Leaves,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Babytalk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
The Stooges,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
New Age Steppers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Second Layer,
Black Moon,
Todd Rundgren,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scientists,
Fad Gadget,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fugs,
Monks,
The Associates,
Ornette Coleman,
The Velvet Underground,
Aaron Thompson,
Gong,
The Beau Brummels,
Shoche,
Brand Nubian,
Hasil Adkins,
Youth Brigade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Pretty Things,
The Knickerbockers,
Kaleidoscope,
Rosa Yemen,
Inner City,
Jeff Lynne,
The Gories,
KRS-One,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül,
Max Romeo,
The Red Krayola,
Patti Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fortunes,
Magma,
Infiniti,
Black Bananas,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.