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 Ireland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ 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 Q and Not U to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Letta Mbulu,
Moss Icon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bronski Beat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Fat Boys,
LL Cool J,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Magazine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aural Exciters,
Sound Behaviour,
Big Daddy Kane,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Drexciya,
Soul II Soul,
Althea and Donna,
FM Einheit,
June of 44,
Ituana,
Mission of Burma,
Zapp,
The Searchers,
Mars,
The Durutti Column,
a-ha,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skarface,
Yellowson,
Ponytail,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Associates,
Lower 48,
Pantaleimon,
New Order,
Ken Boothe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eve St. Jones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Toasters,
Minny Pops,
Eli Mardock,
The Dirtbombs,
John Coltrane,
Severed Heads,
Japan,
Average White Band,
Joyce Sims,
Ultravox,
Lucky Dragons,
Suburban Knight,
Fluxion,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.