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 Ireland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Nile Rodgers 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 DJ Sneak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Donald Byrd,
Tubeway Army,
Newcleus,
The Walker Brothers,
Urselle,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Godley & Creme,
Adolescents,
Prince Buster,
Animal Collective,
Blake Baxter,
Eddi Front,
Joensuu 1685,
Sound Behaviour,
World's Most,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Wyatt,
Don Cherry,
The Grass Roots,
Moss Icon,
Model 500,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Martian,
The Flesh Eaters,
FM Einheit,
Nik Kershaw,
Slave,
Marine Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Von Mondo,
Amon Düül,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Erasure,
Crooked Eye,
Mark Hollis,
Dennis Brown,
Minny Pops,
Dave Gahan,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
In Retrospect,
Neu!,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
Darondo,
Subhumans,
Peter and Kerry,
Throbbing Gristle,
AZ,
Johnny Clarke,
Sparks,
Sixth Finger,
The Slackers,
The Fuzztones,
Moebius,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.