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 Papua New Guinea and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mighty Diamonds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Barclay James Harvest,
Todd Rundgren,
Television Personalities,
David McCallum,
Henry Cow,
Technova,
Moby Grape,
Judy Mowatt,
Ossler,
Public Enemy,
The Gap Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quando Quango,
Tubeway Army,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Standells,
Don Cherry,
Porter Ricks,
F. McDonald,
Kas Product,
Bootsy Collins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masters at Work,
Loose Ends,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Unrelated Segments,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
The Dead C,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pierre Henry,
John Coltrane,
Jacques Brel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pantaleimon,
Cal Tjader,
Sarah Menescal,
Alton Ellis,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Second Layer,
Warren Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Outsiders,
Scan 7,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
The Fall,
Excepter,
Grey Daturas,
H. Thieme,
John Foxx,
Zero Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Sugar Minott,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.