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 Tunisia and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Scientists to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Ken Boothe,
Panda Bear,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
Eric Dolphy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
The Fire Engines,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Severed Heads,
Ice-T,
Symarip,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Offenders,
Delta 5,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Make Up,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Morten Harket,
Can,
Ossler,
Los Fastidios,
Deepchord,
Arthur Verocai,
Ronan,
Amon Düül,
The Gladiators,
Barrington Levy,
Colin Newman,
DJ Sneak,
Stetsasonic,
Zero Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Cybotron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sister Nancy,
Gang Starr,
Radiohead,
Hasil Adkins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Idris Muhammad,
Flipper,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cameo,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharoah Sanders,
Thee Headcoats,
Rakim,
Tomorrow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pylon,
Lalann,
Barbara Tucker,
Anakelly,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Goldenarms,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.