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 Cyprus and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba 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 The Monochrome Set to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Guru Guru,
Susan Cadogan,
The Count Five,
Joyce Sims,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chrome,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Golliwogs,
Underground Resistance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hashim,
The Fugs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-Ray Spex,
FM Einheit,
Nico,
The Seeds,
Q65,
The Wake,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Junior Murvin,
Bluetip,
Marmalade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Misunderstood,
Davy DMX,
Joey Negro,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jacob Miller,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Youth Brigade,
Lalann,
The Cowsills,
Severed Heads,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
ABBA,
The Gladiators,
Marshall Jefferson,
Reagan Youth,
Blancmange,
Robert Hood,
Pole,
Mission of Burma,
Ultra Naté,
Monks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Althea and Donna,
K-Klass,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fear,
Darondo,
Mantronix,
D'Angelo,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.