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 Algeria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 cv313 to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Residents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Parry Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sandy B,
Robert Görl,
The Pretty Things,
Siglo XX,
Echospace,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Young Marble Giants,
Skarface,
Babytalk,
Eve St. Jones,
Smog,
The New Christs,
Television,
Quadrant,
Monolake,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aswad,
Dual Sessions,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronnie Foster,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mark Hollis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kas Product,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brick,
Soft Machine,
Essential Logic,
Kayak,
Soul II Soul,
Cal Tjader,
The Misunderstood,
Symarip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Darondo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grauzone,
Grey Daturas,
James White and The Blacks,
Matthew Bourne,
Swell Maps,
Ituana,
The Standells,
Royal Trux,
Marmalade,
UT,
Country Teasers,
Jeff Mills,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sex Pistols,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.