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 Slovenia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Easy Going to the techno 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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Underground Resistance,
Neil Young,
Unrelated Segments,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Wyatt,
Boredoms,
Dennis Brown,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joy Division,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare,
Negative Approach,
Peter and Kerry,
Tears for Fears,
Todd Rundgren,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Todd Terry,
Deepchord,
Pantytec,
Das Ding,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Barracudas,
The Fall,
Sex Pistols,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ludus,
Scan 7,
The Fuzztones,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Selecter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Lightning Bolt,
Lucky Dragons,
Malaria!,
Swans,
FM Einheit,
Adolescents,
Khruangbin,
Barry Ungar,
Symarip,
The Invisible,
Harmonia,
Bang On A Can,
K-Klass,
Shuggie Otis,
Funkadelic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pulsallama,
Liliput,
the Bar-Kays,
Jacques Brel,
Los Fastidios,
Wire,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.