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 Portugal and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
LL Cool J,
Kenny Larkin,
10cc,
Marmalade,
Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Jandek,
Lyres,
Minny Pops,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
Tim Buckley,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fat Boys,
David Bowie,
Hoover,
Can,
The Skatalites,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scion,
Arab on Radar,
Spoonie Gee,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Black Dice,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terry Callier,
Soul II Soul,
The Toasters,
Fluxion,
Deepchord,
Magma,
Crime,
Girls At Our Best!,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
MDC,
Ituana,
Cymande,
Anthony Braxton,
Excepter,
Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aural Exciters,
Royal Trux,
Cluster,
Marc Almond,
Slick Rick,
kango's stein massive,
Chris & Cosey,
Deadbeat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heaven 17,
Anakelly,
Grandmaster Flash,
Robert Görl,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.