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 Fiji and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young to the disco 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pulsallama,
Stereo Dub,
Aloha Tigers,
Ronnie Foster,
Thompson Twins,
The Modern Lovers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
ABBA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Liliput,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Velvet Underground,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Associates,
Matthew Halsall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Toni Rubio,
MDC,
Half Japanese,
The Invisible,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gap Band,
Joyce Sims,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bill Near,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Susan Cadogan,
Trumans Water,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang of Four,
Wings,
Gong,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blackbyrds,
The Smiths,
Marmalade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Shuggie Otis,
Vladislav Delay,
The Stooges,
Wolf Eyes,
48th St. Collective,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camouflage,
Agitation Free,
Rites of Spring,
Max Romeo,
Dennis Brown,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alison Limerick,
Tears for Fears,
Crash Course in Science,
Neu!,
Talk Talk,
Ultra Naté,
kango's stein massive,
Heaven 17,
Scion,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.