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 Monaco and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 New Order to the jazz 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
Ronnie Foster,
Eve St. Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker,
Japan,
Moss Icon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jimmy McGriff,
Agent Orange,
Eurythmics,
The Gun Club,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Iggy Pop,
The Happenings,
Saccharine Trust,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Howard Jones,
The Count Five,
Jeff Mills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ice-T,
Donald Byrd,
The Slackers,
CMW,
OOIOO,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brand Nubian,
Crispy Ambulance,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
E-Dancer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quadrant,
Minutemen,
The Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
Suburban Knight,
Gil Scott Heron,
Steve Hackett,
Spandau Ballet,
Byron Stingily,
Deadbeat,
Dual Sessions,
Gichy Dan,
Sight & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soul Sonic Force,
Guru Guru,
Dennis Brown,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
Juan Atkins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pere Ubu,
Malaria!,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.