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 United States and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chris & Cosey to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Crispian St. Peters. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Peter and Kerry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yusef Lateef,
Ultimate Spinach,
Erasure,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Scott Walker,
Derrick May,
Althea and Donna,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fuzztones,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Lydon,
Yazoo,
Brand Nubian,
A Certain Ratio,
Marmalade,
In Retrospect,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Morten Harket,
Cal Tjader,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ronnie Foster,
Intrusion,
Rhythm & Sound,
Heaven 17,
Graham Central Station,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
Rotary Connection,
Roger Hodgson,
Steve Hackett,
Eric Copeland,
The Last Poets,
Junior Murvin,
Swell Maps,
Nas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Procol Harum,
OOIOO,
Ossler,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric B and Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Human League,
The Neon Judgement,
Hardrive,
B.T. Express,
Mars,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.