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 Spain and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Guru Guru to the rock 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Jeff Mills,
Deakin,
Buzzcocks,
Donny Hathaway,
Althea and Donna,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Josef K,
Todd Terry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Intrusion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delta 5,
Jawbox,
Letta Mbulu,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rekid,
Suburban Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Eric B and Rakim,
These Immortal Souls,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Durutti Column,
8 Eyed Spy,
FM Einheit,
Qualms,
Barrington Levy,
ABC,
F. McDonald,
Yaz,
Fad Gadget,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Music Machine,
Pulsallama,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Schoolly D,
Con Funk Shun,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Slackers,
The Fugs,
Electric Prunes,
New Age Steppers,
cv313,
the Normal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Audionom,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joey Negro,
Half Japanese,
LL Cool J,
The Smiths,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joyce Sims,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lower 48,
The Raincoats,
Archie Shepp,
The Move,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.