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 Tunisia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lalo Schifrin to the dance 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
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,
CMW,
The Fall,
The Monks,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed,
Little Man,
KRS-One,
Spoonie Gee,
Chris Corsano,
Flipper,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aloha Tigers,
Kenny Larkin,
Lyres,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
Grauzone,
Stiv Bators,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
Arab on Radar,
The Zeros,
Easy Going,
New Age Steppers,
Scion,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fortunes,
Pussy Galore,
Rakim,
Donny Hathaway,
These Immortal Souls,
Bill Wells,
The Blackbyrds,
Nas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
Bronski Beat,
Marc Almond,
Hot Snakes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Siglo XX,
Mantronix,
The Dirtbombs,
The Tremeloes,
Sun City Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Metal Thangz,
Blossom Toes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scratch Acid,
Skriet,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.