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 Korea South and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bauhaus,
Saccharine Trust,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sparks,
Stereo Dub,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker,
Cameo,
Half Japanese,
Scientists,
Jacob Miller,
The Young Rascals,
Fatback Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bad Manners,
Jimmy McGriff,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Ituana,
Scratch Acid,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
F. McDonald,
Liliput,
The Blackbyrds,
Arcadia,
Donald Byrd,
Sam Rivers,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Smoke,
Jeff Mills,
The Moody Blues,
Idris Muhammad,
the Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Smooth,
Laurel Aitken,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jerry's Kids,
Magma,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Kool Moe Dee,
Organ,
Little Man,
Alphaville,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flash Fearless,
Khruangbin,
The Selecter,
Ice-T,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fugs,
The Beau Brummels,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.