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 United Kingdom and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Peter & Gordon to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Arab on Radar,
Stereo Dub,
Peter & Gordon,
The Wake,
David Bowie,
Duran Duran,
The Durutti Column,
Shuggie Otis,
Amon Düül,
K-Klass,
The Alarm Clocks,
Franke,
Marmalade,
Glenn Branca,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Moebius,
Oneida,
Davy DMX,
Flipper,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brand Nubian,
The Blackbyrds,
Aswad,
Country Teasers,
Rekid,
D'Angelo,
the Germs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun City Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Make Up,
Spoonie Gee,
New Age Steppers,
In Retrospect,
Supertramp,
The Standells,
Hashim,
Neu!,
The Cramps,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Barrington Levy,
The Toasters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Maleditus Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tomorrow,
The Fire Engines,
Minutemen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scan 7,
Brass Construction,
Ituana,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Babytalk,
Symarip,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.