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 Maldives and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar 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 Masters at Work 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Pulsallama,
Tommy Roe,
The Misunderstood,
Circle Jerks,
Pole,
Pierre Henry,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tears for Fears,
The Five Americans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Byrd,
Throbbing Gristle,
Matthew Halsall,
Qualms,
Pylon,
Khruangbin,
The Human League,
Maurizio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bauhaus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
This Heat,
Prince Buster,
X-101,
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Count Five,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Slits,
Young Marble Giants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
One Last Wish,
Rapeman,
Pantytec,
Warsaw,
The Martian,
The Fire Engines,
The Velvet Underground,
Skaos,
Make Up,
Angry Samoans,
Desert Stars,
Hot Snakes,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wings,
Morten Harket,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Germs,
Monks,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.