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 Nepal and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Radiohead to the grime 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
The Move,
Roy Ayers,
Cluster,
Fela Kuti,
Japan,
X-Ray Spex,
Gang Green,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
Agitation Free,
Excepter,
Minny Pops,
Neil Young,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brothers Johnson,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
Quantec,
Sixth Finger,
Goldenarms,
The Vogues,
Grandmaster Flash,
Amon Düül II,
Don Cherry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division,
The United States of America,
Idris Muhammad,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
Index,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ornette Coleman,
Sun City Girls,
The Electric Prunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Scratch Acid,
Von Mondo,
The Moody Blues,
FM Einheit,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Niagra,
Morten Harket,
Babytalk,
The Golliwogs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bill Near,
Con Funk Shun,
Suicide,
The Saints,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gladiators,
Fluxion,
Bob Dylan,
Scan 7,
Colin Newman,
Moss Icon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lee Hazlewood,
Model 500,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.