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 Ghana and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 marimba 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 The Velvet Underground 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Todd Terry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soft Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Bananas,
Schoolly D,
Unwound,
Public Enemy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joy Division,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Sherman,
The Seeds,
Das Ding,
The New Christs,
Spoonie Gee,
Roxette,
Scan 7,
The Slackers,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T. Rex,
Agitation Free,
Lakeside,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ornette Coleman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Carl Craig,
Monolake,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Agent Orange,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bill Wells,
Amazonics,
Colin Newman,
Guru Guru,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra,
Basic Channel,
F. McDonald,
The Victims,
The Birthday Party,
Avey Tare,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Lynne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fear,
Wings,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Moon,
Eddi Front,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.