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 Lithuania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 Mojo Men to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
The Skatalites,
The Human League,
Eric Dolphy,
Hashim,
Henry Cow,
Pylon,
Ossler,
Junior Murvin,
Nas,
Ice-T,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Average White Band,
Lou Christie,
The Leaves,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dave Gahan,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
The Index,
E-Dancer,
the Swans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Wyatt,
Hot Snakes,
Glenn Branca,
Tommy Roe,
Dark Day,
Lower 48,
Quantec,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Shadows of Knight,
Boogie Down Productions,
Qualms,
the Germs,
Matthew Bourne,
The Gories,
China Crisis,
Echospace,
Main Source,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mandrill,
Jawbox,
Big Daddy Kane,
Easy Going,
T.S.O.L.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Zapp,
Sight & Sound,
MDC,
OOIOO,
The Busters,
Roxy Music,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.