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 Greece and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare 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 Isaac Hayes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scion,
Hot Snakes,
Ronnie Foster,
Jacques Brel,
Accadde A,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
Thompson Twins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mission of Burma,
Sound Behaviour,
Cymande,
Alphaville,
Iggy Pop,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aural Exciters,
La Düsseldorf,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Clarke,
Zapp,
Silicon Teens,
Reuben Wilson,
R.M.O.,
Kenny Larkin,
Kerri Chandler,
Severed Heads,
Intrusion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Japan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ossler,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pole,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neu!,
Prince Buster,
Robert Hood,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Absolute Body Control,
the Sonics,
Liliput,
Television,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.