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 Grenada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the techno 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Human League,
Dual Sessions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Procol Harum,
Fela Kuti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Litter,
Sun Ra,
Fluxion,
Lou Christie,
Josef K,
Make Up,
B.T. Express,
Ken Boothe,
Jacques Brel,
Pantaleimon,
Clear Light,
Icehouse,
Second Layer,
Trumans Water,
David Axelrod,
The Skatalites,
Urselle,
Graham Central Station,
Lakeside,
Ludus,
Groovy Waters,
Sugar Minott,
Peter and Kerry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fear,
Derrick Morgan,
The Evens,
Hasil Adkins,
James White and The Blacks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marine Girls,
The Move,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delta 5,
the Slits,
The Monks,
Gang Green,
Johnny Clarke,
Minor Threat,
Yusef Lateef,
Subhumans,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pole,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Count Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aural Exciters,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
ABBA,
Gong,
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.