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 Dominican Republic and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Dirtbombs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nik Kershaw,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Motorama,
Fluxion,
the Human League,
Steve Hackett,
The Gories,
The Selecter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Don Cherry,
John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
Pantytec,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-Ray Spex,
Wasted Youth,
DJ Style,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Chris Corsano,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scrapy,
Todd Rundgren,
Delta 5,
Camouflage,
Bluetip,
the Bar-Kays,
Mandrill,
Josef K,
Man Parrish,
Monolake,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Sound,
Boredoms,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dead Boys,
Rosa Yemen,
Kas Product,
Janne Schatter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Surgeon,
Easy Going,
Wings,
Theoretical Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fat Boys,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Das Ding,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.