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 Senegal and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Joy Division to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Age Steppers,
Echospace,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
Minny Pops,
a-ha,
The Dead C,
Funky Four + One,
The Mummies,
Oblivians,
This Heat,
Subhumans,
Organ,
Nils Olav,
Stetsasonic,
Desert Stars,
PIL,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hashim,
the Slits,
Grauzone,
John Foxx,
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
Little Man,
Infiniti,
Byron Stingily,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cowsills,
Skarface,
Rakim,
Charles Mingus,
Icehouse,
Bill Wells,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fortunes,
Unrelated Segments,
The Stooges,
Gichy Dan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joe Smooth,
Intrusion,
Nick Fraelich,
The Modern Lovers,
The Grass Roots,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
Groovy Waters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Anakelly,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Q and Not U,
Janne Schatter,
Hot Snakes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Halsall,
Severed Heads,
Al Stewart,
Minutemen,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.