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 Yemen and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Oneida to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
Terry Callier,
Spandau Ballet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Man Parrish,
Todd Rundgren,
Sällskapet,
This Heat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Con Funk Shun,
T. Rex,
Negative Approach,
Tears for Fears,
Brass Construction,
Sex Pistols,
Dave Gahan,
New Order,
The Dirtbombs,
Mandrill,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gang Green,
Aural Exciters,
Deepchord,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scion,
John Lydon,
Maleditus Sound,
Accadde A,
Steve Hackett,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Foxx,
Delta 5,
Infiniti,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bill Wells,
Tomorrow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Associates,
Kerrie Biddell,
Iggy Pop,
Leonard Cohen,
Robert Hood,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sugar Minott,
Vainqueur,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sam Rivers,
Urselle,
Von Mondo,
Harmonia,
Mantronix,
The Five Americans,
The Grass Roots,
Rufus Thomas,
The Martian,
Fad Gadget,
Bad Manners,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.