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 Philippines and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Grauzone,
The Human League,
The Blackbyrds,
The Misunderstood,
Von Mondo,
The Techniques,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
D'Angelo,
Lower 48,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
Boz Scaggs,
Skriet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moebius,
Flipper,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Coltrane,
The Smiths,
Arcadia,
The Doobie Brothers,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker,
Banda Bassotti,
T. Rex,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fear,
Deepchord,
Bluetip,
The Evens,
Dark Day,
Fatback Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Girls At Our Best!,
Interpol,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Görl,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visage,
Sun Ra,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Nirvana,
Cameo,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter and Kerry,
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Al Stewart,
Talk Talk,
Marc Almond,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.