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 Armenia and from Calgary.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord 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 Rekid to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Arab on Radar,
Tubeway Army,
Sandy B,
the Sonics,
John Cale,
The Slits,
The Moody Blues,
Ultra Naté,
FM Einheit,
T. Rex,
Saccharine Trust,
Stereo Dub,
Derrick May,
Monks,
Deakin,
Ice-T,
Ronan,
Big Daddy Kane,
OOIOO,
Yusef Lateef,
Bad Manners,
Maleditus Sound,
Aaron Thompson,
The Associates,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
The Sonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Smog,
The Seeds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Outsiders,
Fat Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Star Department,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Half Japanese,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Junior Murvin,
Metal Thangz,
Mark Hollis,
Sarah Menescal,
Japan,
The Victims,
These Immortal Souls,
Bronski Beat,
Mandrill,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moebius,
One Last Wish,
Mad Mike,
Q65,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camouflage,
Eve St. Jones,
Massinfluence,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.