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 South Sudan and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Modern Lovers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Scrapy,
Donald Byrd,
Peter and Kerry,
Inner City,
the Germs,
Nirvana,
Pantytec,
The Moody Blues,
Sight & Sound,
Goldenarms,
Althea and Donna,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Make Up,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pere Ubu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stetsasonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
LL Cool J,
Maurizio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Bananas,
Excepter,
Rod Modell,
the Association,
Eurythmics,
Jerry's Kids,
Ornette Coleman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Amon Düül,
Royal Trux,
H. Thieme,
The Associates,
Altered Images,
Man Eating Sloth,
Magazine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Robert Wyatt,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bobby Sherman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Faust,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marine Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Ultravox,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Ludus,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.