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 Colombia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Holger Czukay 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 Accadde A to the jazz 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pylon,
The Techniques,
Newcleus,
Main Source,
Mandrill,
Jeff Mills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Smog,
The Pop Group,
Howard Jones,
Qualms,
Terry Callier,
The Remains,
The Index,
Colin Newman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Searchers,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scientists,
Eurythmics,
Funkadelic,
Negative Approach,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pharoah Sanders,
Can,
Archie Shepp,
Masters at Work,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Animal Collective,
Little Man,
Matthew Bourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Foxx,
Underground Resistance,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harpers Bizarre,
Swell Maps,
Television Personalities,
Soft Machine,
The Golliwogs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jesper Dahlback,
David Axelrod,
Jandek,
The United States of America,
Pulsallama,
the Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
The Smoke,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cure,
Tres Demented,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Lynne,
Fear,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Organ,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.