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 Romania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nik Kershaw to the punk 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
The Happenings,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
Cymande,
Lightning Bolt,
Minny Pops,
Young Marble Giants,
Roger Hodgson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Flash Fearless,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tim Buckley,
Khruangbin,
The Saints,
The Slits,
Porter Ricks,
Country Teasers,
Todd Terry,
K-Klass,
Suburban Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Flesh Eaters,
Freddie Wadling,
Terrestrial Tones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fortunes,
Monolake,
Lucky Dragons,
FM Einheit,
Scrapy,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric B and Rakim,
A Flock of Seagulls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Janne Schatter,
Royal Trux,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lyres,
Black Flag,
EPMD,
Eurythmics,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Dolphy,
Soul II Soul,
John Lydon,
Rites of Spring,
Michelle Simonal,
Isaac Hayes,
Unwound,
Shuggie Otis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brass Construction,
The Modern Lovers,
Chrome,
Q and Not U,
Ronan,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.