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 Paraguay and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ohio Players to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Amon Düül II,
Kayak,
Rufus Thomas,
Monolake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camberwell Now,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Unrelated Segments,
Easy Going,
Maurizio,
Minutemen,
Crispy Ambulance,
Johnny Clarke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Radiopuhelimet,
DJ Style,
Eric Copeland,
Slave,
Lakeside,
Crime,
Darondo,
Joy Division,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Model 500,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Birthday Party,
The Gladiators,
Schoolly D,
Black Bananas,
Dual Sessions,
Liliput,
The Searchers,
Sugar Minott,
Blancmange,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ludus,
Harmonia,
Al Stewart,
Faust,
The Cure,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Mojo Men,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Intrusion,
China Crisis,
T.S.O.L.,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Neu!,
Depeche Mode,
Thee Headcoats,
John Foxx,
The Victims,
Warren Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.