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 Costa Rica and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rapeman to the rap 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Amazonics,
Au Pairs,
Archie Shepp,
Saccharine Trust,
The Red Krayola,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
Derrick Morgan,
Donald Byrd,
DJ Style,
Vladislav Delay,
Monolake,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
D'Angelo,
U.S. Maple,
Organ,
Isaac Hayes,
Soul Sonic Force,
MC5,
Stereo Dub,
June Days,
The Neon Judgement,
John Lydon,
Kayak,
Scion,
Country Teasers,
Tres Demented,
Outsiders,
The Pop Group,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
In Retrospect,
Bluetip,
R.M.O.,
The Cure,
Japan,
The Gories,
Neil Young,
Malaria!,
The Techniques,
Kerri Chandler,
Gang of Four,
Index,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Robert Wyatt,
Pantaleimon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cheater Slicks,
The Monochrome Set,
Unrelated Segments,
The Motions,
The Alarm Clocks,
DJ Sneak,
Ultimate Spinach,
Warsaw,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kool Moe Dee,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.