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 Somalia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Lakeside to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Massinfluence,
Juan Atkins,
The Gories,
Unrelated Segments,
Simply Red,
Aswad,
Rod Modell,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
The Count Five,
Scratch Acid,
The New Christs,
Harmonia,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Remains,
Kenny Larkin,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
James White and The Blacks,
Outsiders,
Harry Pussy,
Tom Boy,
Barrington Levy,
Sound Behaviour,
Sex Pistols,
Mark Hollis,
The Human League,
Echospace,
Pantytec,
Swell Maps,
X-102,
Deepchord,
New York Dolls,
B.T. Express,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Drexciya,
the Soft Cell,
Mars,
Mo-Dettes,
The Offenders,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
Marine Girls,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eve St. Jones,
Q65,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Trojans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Underground Resistance,
Jacques Brel,
Scott Walker,
Man Eating Sloth,
Chris Corsano,
Public Enemy,
Main Source,
Kurtis Blow,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kerrie Biddell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.