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 Somalia and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Section 25 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Essential Logic,
The Trojans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Star Department,
The Young Rascals,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minor Threat,
The Skatalites,
Cameo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dave Gahan,
The Techniques,
Kerri Chandler,
The Count Five,
Rekid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
Moby Grape,
Average White Band,
Oneida,
Moss Icon,
Q and Not U,
Nick Fraelich,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marmalade,
Nik Kershaw,
Simply Red,
The Durutti Column,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sun Ra,
Basic Channel,
Monks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
DJ Sneak,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Cramps,
Aaron Thompson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mr. Review,
Matthew Bourne,
Gichy Dan,
Clear Light,
Groovy Waters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tommy Roe,
Shoche,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masters at Work,
Henry Cow,
Quantec,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Searchers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.