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 Kingdom and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the rock 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
Lucky Dragons,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Steve Hackett,
The Kinks,
Unwound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Happenings,
Babytalk,
The Seeds,
The Stooges,
Sixth Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
The Slits,
JFA,
Absolute Body Control,
Andrew Hill,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Sandy B,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kaleidoscope,
The Buckinghams,
Thompson Twins,
Lindisfarne,
Urselle,
Arthur Verocai,
Make Up,
Buzzcocks,
Sparks,
Todd Rundgren,
E-Dancer,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronnie Foster,
The Gun Club,
The Cowsills,
Ultra Naté,
Jacob Miller,
The Five Americans,
the Slits,
The Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Magma,
Marshall Jefferson,
Faust,
Pet Shop Boys,
MDC,
Smog,
The Misunderstood,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.