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 Peru and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar 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 Warren Ellis to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Johnny Clarke,
Warren Ellis,
The Grass Roots,
Alice Coltrane,
The Tremeloes,
Yusef Lateef,
Stiv Bators,
U.S. Maple,
The Divine Comedy,
Siglo XX,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Television,
Maleditus Sound,
Fear,
Joensuu 1685,
Piero Umiliani,
Carl Craig,
Neil Young,
Faust,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New Order,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Loose Ends,
Ornette Coleman,
OOIOO,
Ronnie Foster,
Kurtis Blow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
Second Layer,
Ice-T,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ludus,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Slick Rick,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nico,
Motorama,
The Shadows of Knight,
R.M.O.,
Jerry's Kids,
E-Dancer,
cv313,
A Flock of Seagulls,
PIL,
Bobby Womack,
10cc,
the Germs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Matthew Bourne,
Hardrive,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.