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 Montenegro and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pharoah Sanders to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Excepter,
Joe Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
Slick Rick,
Magma,
Derrick May,
Q65,
Absolute Body Control,
Donny Hathaway,
Thee Headcoats,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Newcleus,
Pulsallama,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skaos,
The Invisible,
Ronnie Foster,
Bush Tetras,
Banda Bassotti,
Thompson Twins,
Spandau Ballet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Al Stewart,
Nils Olav,
The Sound,
Ten City,
The Last Poets,
Kenny Larkin,
Kayak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The J.B.'s,
Monolake,
Junior Murvin,
Jawbox,
Animal Collective,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rufus Thomas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gories,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Names,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shoche,
Tomorrow,
Rosa Yemen,
Suburban Knight,
Amon Düül,
Patti Smith,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
The Raincoats,
The Associates,
La Düsseldorf,
The Doors,
Nico,
Neu!,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.