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 Calgary.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Jesper Dahlback to the punk 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The J.B.'s,
Grauzone,
Scrapy,
Bill Wells,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nas,
Brick,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fela Kuti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soft Cell,
Joey Negro,
Supertramp,
Carl Craig,
Robert Hood,
Black Flag,
Pulsallama,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Essential Logic,
The United States of America,
Yazoo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Agent Orange,
the Germs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eden Ahbez,
The Invisible,
Black Sheep,
Gregory Isaacs,
Drexciya,
Section 25,
Kenny Larkin,
Ken Boothe,
Groovy Waters,
Crash Course in Science,
Connie Case,
Derrick May,
The Saints,
Ralphi Rosario,
K-Klass,
Curtis Mayfield,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bush Tetras,
Dawn Penn,
Brand Nubian,
Mantronix,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fat Boys,
the Association,
Average White Band,
Gong,
Dave Gahan,
Sex Pistols,
Sugar Minott,
Alton Ellis,
The Count Five,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.