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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 Delta 5 to the punk 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Jandek,
The Real Kids,
Section 25,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
John Foxx,
Hashim,
Animal Collective,
LL Cool J,
Warsaw,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Derrick Morgan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Erasure,
Sam Rivers,
Johnny Clarke,
The Last Poets,
Kerri Chandler,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Barry Ungar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nirvana,
Albert Ayler,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Names,
The Young Rascals,
Juan Atkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tubeway Army,
The Durutti Column,
Deepchord,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Monks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Saints,
David Axelrod,
Letta Mbulu,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hoover,
Trumans Water,
Rapeman,
Brand Nubian,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tommy Roe,
Minor Threat,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chrome,
Radio Birdman,
Clear Light,
Ronnie Foster,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.