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 Jordan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Essential Logic to the rock 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Axelrod,
Nas,
Cecil Taylor,
Fluxion,
Skriet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Shoche,
Joy Division,
Godley & Creme,
Sam Rivers,
Black Pus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Essential Logic,
Roxy Music,
DNA,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fortunes,
Motorama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joensuu 1685,
Roy Ayers,
Yellowson,
LL Cool J,
Erykah Badu,
Prince Buster,
The Kinks,
Deepchord,
Cybotron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Porter Ricks,
Inner City,
Bronski Beat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Make Up,
Flash Fearless,
The Moleskins,
Sun City Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Wire,
Dark Day,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Soft Cell,
R.M.O.,
Trumans Water,
Simply Red,
Panda Bear,
This Heat,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monochrome Set,
Max Romeo,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Zeros,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joyce Sims,
Kerrie Biddell,
Skaos,
Das Ding,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.