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 Croatia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator 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 Excepter to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters 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 grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Buzzcocks,
Unwound,
MDC,
Moss Icon,
Little Man,
Circle Jerks,
Ten City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The American Breed,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Audionom,
Procol Harum,
Television,
Rotary Connection,
Ornette Coleman,
David McCallum,
Groovy Waters,
Guru Guru,
The Motions,
In Retrospect,
Can,
Khruangbin,
Freddie Wadling,
Joy Division,
Qualms,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cheater Slicks,
Funky Four + One,
Barrington Levy,
Moby Grape,
Mo-Dettes,
Gichy Dan,
Quando Quango,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kurtis Blow,
Rites of Spring,
The Move,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang of Four,
the Sonics,
Albert Ayler,
Lucky Dragons,
New Order,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Zeros,
Yazoo,
Sun Ra,
Bush Tetras,
The Fortunes,
Franke,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.