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 San Marino and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the rap 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Trumans Water,
Quando Quango,
New Order,
The Wake,
Oneida,
Ultra Naté,
David Bowie,
Intrusion,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Minny Pops,
the Normal,
The Selecter,
CMW,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Happenings,
The Electric Prunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Derrick May,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Young Marble Giants,
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
Minor Threat,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Surgeon,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Agent Orange,
Subhumans,
Hoover,
Anthony Braxton,
Dead Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
The Tremeloes,
June of 44,
The Grass Roots,
Pussy Galore,
Drexciya,
JFA,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Carl Craig,
The Monochrome Set,
Vainqueur,
Franke,
Zero Boys,
B.T. Express,
The Remains,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pylon,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Marmalade,
the Germs,
X-102,
Bronski Beat,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.