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 Angola and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Blake Baxter to the grime 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
The Blues Magoos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Niagra,
Buzzcocks,
World's Most,
Jacob Miller,
The Sonics,
The Moody Blues,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Spandau Ballet,
Hardrive,
Aural Exciters,
Cameo,
Tom Boy,
Derrick Morgan,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dead C,
Gong,
Bobby Hutcherson,
PIL,
Alison Limerick,
The Modern Lovers,
Marvin Gaye,
The Monochrome Set,
the Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Sparks,
Bob Dylan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
John Lydon,
Dawn Penn,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Fraelich,
John Foxx,
Chrome,
Erasure,
Minor Threat,
Chris Corsano,
FM Einheit,
Ohio Players,
China Crisis,
Simply Red,
Pere Ubu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tomorrow,
Essential Logic,
Blossom Toes,
Underground Resistance,
Susan Cadogan,
Brothers Johnson,
Schoolly D,
Soulsonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
This Heat,
Popol Vuh,
Saccharine Trust,
Black Moon,
The American Breed,
Roy Ayers,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.