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 Sweden and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Leonard Cohen to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Can,
Frankie Knuckles,
Laurel Aitken,
Jesper Dahlback,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bill Wells,
Radio Birdman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bootsy Collins,
Cybotron,
Brick,
Reuben Wilson,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
F. McDonald,
Saccharine Trust,
Skriet,
Ronan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Morten Harket,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pop Group,
Freddie Wadling,
Graham Central Station,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gabor Szabo,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Howard Jones,
Chris & Cosey,
Index,
Little Man,
The Motions,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Roy Ayers,
Sarah Menescal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lindisfarne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
Niagra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yazoo,
China Crisis,
Franke,
Youth Brigade,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Underground Resistance,
The Gories,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Count Five,
Smog,
Soft Machine,
Aaron Thompson,
Jerry's Kids,
Deadbeat,
X-Ray Spex,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.