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 Jamaica and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 Mandrill to the rock 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Roy Ayers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sugar Minott,
Junior Murvin,
Wally Richardson,
The Martian,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd,
The Fuzztones,
The Searchers,
Hot Snakes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Carl Craig,
Erykah Badu,
Jawbox,
the Human League,
Fat Boys,
Tim Buckley,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Magma,
Alton Ellis,
The Birthday Party,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stereo Dub,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vainqueur,
John Cale,
The Young Rascals,
Dual Sessions,
Barry Ungar,
The Wake,
Hashim,
Popol Vuh,
Idris Muhammad,
Sun Ra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Underground Resistance,
Eric Copeland,
Bill Wells,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
Davy DMX,
Al Stewart,
Whodini,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fire Engines,
Radiohead,
Peter and Kerry,
Pussy Galore,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Deadbeat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joey Negro,
Ronnie Foster,
Metal Thangz,
Black Moon,
Oblivians,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.