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 Gabon and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
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 theremin 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 The New Christs to the rap 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sex Pistols,
Bad Manners,
Lindisfarne,
Swans,
Joe Finger,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronnie Foster,
Deakin,
The Monks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
L. Decosne,
The Kinks,
The Skatalites,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pierre Henry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brand Nubian,
Dead Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
The Selecter,
The Vogues,
Godley & Creme,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warren Ellis,
Althea and Donna,
The Moody Blues,
Q65,
Carl Craig,
X-101,
Marmalade,
Neil Young,
Mantronix,
Fad Gadget,
The Count Five,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Eli Mardock,
Sister Nancy,
The Slackers,
The Smoke,
Kerri Chandler,
Angry Samoans,
Underground Resistance,
Jandek,
Juan Atkins,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Victims,
The Techniques,
Das Ding,
Delta 5,
Bauhaus,
Arthur Verocai,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ice-T,
The Doors,
Quantec,
Barrington Levy,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.