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 Zambia and from London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Fatback Band to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Janne Schatter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suicide,
Jerry's Kids,
Deadbeat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fire Engines,
Connie Case,
E-Dancer,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris & Cosey,
The Monks,
Brand Nubian,
Kurtis Blow,
Angry Samoans,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Subhumans,
The Knickerbockers,
Marc Almond,
Juan Atkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sight & Sound,
Marine Girls,
Isaac Hayes,
The Sonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Howard Jones,
Minnie Riperton,
Whodini,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Motions,
Grandmaster Flash,
Skarface,
Vainqueur,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Hutcherson,
48th St. Collective,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Zero Boys,
Anakelly,
Cameo,
ABC,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music,
Young Marble Giants,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
kango's stein massive,
Skriet,
Kerrie Biddell,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.