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 Cyprus and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 The Happenings to the grunge 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Alton Ellis,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faust,
Donny Hathaway,
Tomorrow,
Cal Tjader,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Public Enemy,
Silicon Teens,
Steve Hackett,
Juan Atkins,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Mills,
Barrington Levy,
Intrusion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pere Ubu,
The Dead C,
Arab on Radar,
Todd Terry,
Nas,
Skriet,
The Index,
Glenn Branca,
Main Source,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Wells,
Symarip,
Audionom,
Stiv Bators,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
Swans,
The Slackers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Make Up,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
Freddie Wadling,
The Real Kids,
Shoche,
Donald Byrd,
Maurizio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eurythmics,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Patti Smith,
Zero Boys,
Bill Near,
Deepchord,
The Dirtbombs,
Scientists,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Neil Young,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.