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 Indonesia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Rotary Connection,
The Smoke,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sound,
Boredoms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Index,
The Mummies,
Technova,
Interpol,
Make Up,
Agitation Free,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pole,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Swans,
Section 25,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal,
Marine Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Byron Stingily,
The Motions,
Matthew Bourne,
PIL,
the Bar-Kays,
Sugar Minott,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brass Construction,
Joe Smooth,
Newcleus,
Schoolly D,
The Grass Roots,
MDC,
Harmonia,
Bush Tetras,
Q and Not U,
David Bowie,
The Offenders,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marmalade,
Glambeats Corp.,
Althea and Donna,
New Age Steppers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soft Cell,
The Cowsills,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.