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 Albania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
The Gun Club,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
Amazonics,
Prince Buster,
Royal Trux,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brick,
Ultravox,
The Durutti Column,
Alton Ellis,
The Toasters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cameo,
The Cowsills,
Fluxion,
Mr. Review,
The Busters,
Mantronix,
Funkadelic,
KRS-One,
The Doobie Brothers,
Shuggie Otis,
Minnie Riperton,
Pharoah Sanders,
Godley & Creme,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hashim,
Bob Dylan,
John Foxx,
Chris Corsano,
Schoolly D,
The Human League,
Derrick May,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Excepter,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moebius,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Fire Engines,
Masters at Work,
Ituana,
Kerrie Biddell,
Steve Hackett,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marine Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Liliput,
Infiniti,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oblivians,
Bobby Sherman,
New Order,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.