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 Bolivia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ossler,
Cybotron,
The Litter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kerrie Biddell,
Underground Resistance,
Soulsonic Force,
The Leaves,
Young Marble Giants,
Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Fatback Band,
Blossom Toes,
Gichy Dan,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fortunes,
Rod Modell,
The Misunderstood,
Bob Dylan,
Youth Brigade,
The Invisible,
Jacques Brel,
Monolake,
Chris Corsano,
Yaz,
Glenn Branca,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Big Daddy Kane,
Warsaw,
Quadrant,
Soul II Soul,
Niagra,
Buzzcocks,
One Last Wish,
Anakelly,
Nico,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Arab on Radar,
World's Most,
Cheater Slicks,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
Brick,
T.S.O.L.,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ponytail,
X-Ray Spex,
The Pop Group,
Roy Ayers,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
10cc,
Gang Starr,
The Five Americans,
The Count Five,
Scan 7,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.