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 Korea North and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator 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 The Cowsills to the jazz 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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pulsallama,
The Gories,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Underground Resistance,
Al Stewart,
Cecil Taylor,
Angry Samoans,
KRS-One,
Ken Boothe,
Infiniti,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wire,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Golliwogs,
Graham Central Station,
The Offenders,
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Residents,
Dual Sessions,
The Trojans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
L. Decosne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Connie Case,
Aural Exciters,
Joy Division,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mark Hollis,
Public Image Ltd.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Soulsonic Force,
The Skatalites,
the Bar-Kays,
These Immortal Souls,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Young Rascals,
Erasure,
Derrick May,
The Dave Clark Five,
cv313,
Oblivians,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Move,
Faust,
Wasted Youth,
The Gladiators,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
Pet Shop Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Negative Approach,
Kenny Larkin,
Zero Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jawbox,
Yusef Lateef,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.