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 Belgium and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Von Mondo to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Chris & Cosey,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Agent Orange,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Mary Jane Girls,
Niagra,
Supertramp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bronski Beat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fela Kuti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hot Snakes,
Cheater Slicks,
Skaos,
Excepter,
Public Enemy,
Eric Copeland,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Tremeloes,
Oblivians,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Absolute Body Control,
The Offenders,
Skarface,
Quadrant,
KRS-One,
Blancmange,
Marshall Jefferson,
Babytalk,
Black Flag,
The Golliwogs,
Andrew Hill,
Radio Birdman,
Robert Wyatt,
Wally Richardson,
Panda Bear,
H. Thieme,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wasted Youth,
D'Angelo,
Eve St. Jones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pylon,
Dave Gahan,
OOIOO,
Roy Ayers,
Popol Vuh,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cecil Taylor,
Archie Shepp,
Rekid,
Grauzone,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.