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 Dominican Republic and from Spokane.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Peter & Gordon to the punk 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Kaleidoscope,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Sherman,
The Human League,
Scientists,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Young Marble Giants,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Christie,
CMW,
Von Mondo,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
Silicon Teens,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scott Walker,
Lakeside,
The Searchers,
Essential Logic,
Steve Hackett,
Henry Cow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Accadde A,
Icehouse,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Swell Maps,
Wings,
Tomorrow,
Ice-T,
The Divine Comedy,
JFA,
Reuben Wilson,
Iggy Pop,
Roger Hodgson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Peter & Gordon,
Cymande,
Agent Orange,
Half Japanese,
Adolescents,
Zero Boys,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Junior Murvin,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
The Selecter,
These Immortal Souls,
The American Breed,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.