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 Japan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds 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?
Hashim,
Tom Boy,
Dennis Brown,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
Derrick Morgan,
Zero Boys,
the Slits,
Deakin,
Stiv Bators,
Massinfluence,
The Beau Brummels,
Idris Muhammad,
Sonny Sharrock,
Donny Hathaway,
ABC,
10cc,
Bobby Sherman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The American Breed,
K-Klass,
The Kinks,
Al Stewart,
Nirvana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vainqueur,
Can,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fatback Band,
One Last Wish,
Max Romeo,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Sun City Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Oneida,
Maleditus Sound,
Amazonics,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Eric Dolphy,
Johnny Clarke,
Arab on Radar,
Althea and Donna,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mars,
the Sonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Bananas,
Scratch Acid,
Toni Rubio,
The Gap Band,
Urselle,
Newcleus,
Sparks,
This Heat,
Delta 5,
Boredoms,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rites of Spring,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.