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 Czech Republic and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gang of Four to the disco 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
Saccharine Trust,
The Index,
Anthony Braxton,
Underground Resistance,
The Birthday Party,
The Velvet Underground,
Skarface,
Bootsy Collins,
Maurizio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Michelle Simonal,
The Knickerbockers,
Marc Almond,
Angry Samoans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gang Green,
June Days,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Alton Ellis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Red Krayola,
Sun City Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Young Rascals,
Country Teasers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oblivians,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Vainqueur,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
Public Enemy,
DNA,
Zero Boys,
The Slackers,
Masters at Work,
Hoover,
Visage,
Mo-Dettes,
The Real Kids,
EPMD,
Gong,
Zapp,
Tres Demented,
Archie Shepp,
Bauhaus,
The Raincoats,
Matthew Bourne,
Porter Ricks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.