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 New Zealand and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Joe Smooth to the grunge 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
China Crisis,
Los Fastidios,
Organ,
Negative Approach,
Depeche Mode,
Todd Terry,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Shoche,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul Sonic Force,
Danielle Patucci,
Albert Ayler,
The Smoke,
Max Romeo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bill Near,
Swell Maps,
Nirvana,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Last Poets,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Techniques,
Delon & Dalcan,
Quadrant,
Arab on Radar,
The Red Krayola,
Iggy Pop,
the Germs,
The Searchers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cecil Taylor,
Franke,
Deepchord,
Ultra Naté,
Pussy Galore,
The Motions,
Urselle,
Japan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Henry Cow,
Kenny Larkin,
Echospace,
Pulsallama,
Alphaville,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moebius,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Mark Hollis,
the Sonics,
Motorama,
The Cure,
The Young Rascals,
X-102,
Radiohead,
This Heat,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.