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 Hungary and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ice-T,
Roxy Music,
EPMD,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Copeland,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The J.B.'s,
Sixth Finger,
Visage,
Girls At Our Best!,
Desert Stars,
Barbara Tucker,
Yusef Lateef,
Arab on Radar,
Unrelated Segments,
The Music Machine,
Bad Manners,
The Index,
Radio Birdman,
X-Ray Spex,
Robert Görl,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Agent Orange,
Godley & Creme,
Shuggie Otis,
Bauhaus,
The Young Rascals,
Black Pus,
Jeff Lynne,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronnie Foster,
Idris Muhammad,
The Motions,
Pantaleimon,
Funky Four + One,
Funkadelic,
Camberwell Now,
Public Image Ltd.,
Outsiders,
the Normal,
Scott Walker,
Moebius,
The Five Americans,
Kenny Larkin,
The Saints,
FM Einheit,
Easy Going,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marmalade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Soft Cell,
Althea and Donna,
The Mojo Men,
Fela Kuti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.