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 Vietnam and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet 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 Moss Icon 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Victims,
Barrington Levy,
Massinfluence,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Vogues,
Basic Channel,
Darondo,
ABBA,
the Slits,
Wire,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
Rapeman,
Scratch Acid,
The Barracudas,
AZ,
Adolescents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Real Kids,
Fear,
Marc Almond,
The Dirtbombs,
Man Parrish,
Theoretical Girls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shuggie Otis,
a-ha,
Audionom,
Dead Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Eddi Front,
Slick Rick,
The Neon Judgement,
Shoche,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bluetip,
Bauhaus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed,
Das Ding,
Flipper,
Yaz,
Hot Snakes,
Guru Guru,
Camberwell Now,
The Cowsills,
Byron Stingily,
Nils Olav,
Flash Fearless,
The Golliwogs,
China Crisis,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.