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 Mali and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Basic Channel to the crunk 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Eric Dolphy,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
The Electric Prunes,
Jacob Miller,
Brand Nubian,
Alton Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Rufus Thomas,
Gil Scott Heron,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter & Gordon,
The Vogues,
Pagans,
Monks,
Slave,
Quadrant,
John Cale,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Starr,
T.S.O.L.,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monochrome Set,
Kevin Saunderson,
Morten Harket,
Freddie Wadling,
Japan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rosa Yemen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scan 7,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Negative Approach,
The Move,
Flamin' Groovies,
Brothers Johnson,
The Young Rascals,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roxette,
The Beau Brummels,
The Mummies,
F. McDonald,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sparks,
Mantronix,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
John Foxx,
Black Sheep,
Bob Dylan,
Grauzone,
Avey Tare,
The Neon Judgement,
The Saints,
Angry Samoans,
PIL,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.