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 Marshall Islands and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Winnipeg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yazoo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
Joensuu 1685,
Los Fastidios,
The Dead C,
James White and The Blacks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Das Ding,
The Fugs,
Lalann,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Livin' Joy,
Sonic Youth,
The Moleskins,
Main Source,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Enemy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Teasers,
Joey Negro,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bob Dylan,
Alton Ellis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
Flipper,
Ohio Players,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Five Americans,
The Happenings,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun City Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Harmonia,
Fela Kuti,
Excepter,
Gang Starr,
Arab on Radar,
Oblivians,
Pantytec,
Bad Manners,
The Gap Band,
Wally Richardson,
The Cramps,
the Swans,
Anakelly,
Jacques Brel,
The Mojo Men,
Kaleidoscope,
Warren Ellis,
Eli Mardock,
Barrington Levy,
Symarip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.