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 Jordan and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Franke 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magma,
Judy Mowatt,
Eric Dolphy,
Reagan Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Stooges,
Brick,
The Star Department,
Faust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
MC5,
Wings,
Kurtis Blow,
Mandrill,
Youth Brigade,
D'Angelo,
Donald Byrd,
Royal Trux,
Maurizio,
Peter and Kerry,
Susan Cadogan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Smog,
The Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül,
The Count Five,
Porter Ricks,
Lindisfarne,
Main Source,
Kool Moe Dee,
Yusef Lateef,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
One Last Wish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brothers Johnson,
Crooked Eye,
Jandek,
Moss Icon,
Index,
Kenny Larkin,
The Sound,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barbara Tucker,
L. Decosne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Drexciya,
Electric Prunes,
E-Dancer,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacob Miller,
The Fire Engines,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.