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 Albania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb 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 Sparks to the punk 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
One Last Wish,
Surgeon,
Mo-Dettes,
Spoonie Gee,
The Offenders,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cymande,
PIL,
F. McDonald,
Infiniti,
The Slits,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rotary Connection,
Schoolly D,
The Fuzztones,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
Symarip,
Idris Muhammad,
The Techniques,
KRS-One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fear,
The Doors,
Max Romeo,
In Retrospect,
Au Pairs,
Aswad,
Joe Finger,
ABBA,
Sam Rivers,
Excepter,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Groovy Waters,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
a-ha,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Minor Threat,
Aaron Thompson,
the Slits,
Average White Band,
Mars,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Moebius,
Eden Ahbez,
kango's stein massive,
JFA,
Bobby Sherman,
Prince Buster,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
Black Flag,
DNA,
Electric Prunes,
Bauhaus,
Alphaville,
Lungfish,
Zero Boys,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.