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 Taiwan and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Lucky Dragons to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Barrington Levy,
Dead Boys,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonic Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Sound Behaviour,
Suicide,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Section 25,
Charles Mingus,
Joy Division,
Scrapy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Five Americans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Victims,
The Slackers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fugazi,
Pagans,
Pulsallama,
Ralphi Rosario,
Curtis Mayfield,
Smog,
The Electric Prunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
June of 44,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
Model 500,
Ronnie Foster,
Boz Scaggs,
Rosa Yemen,
the Bar-Kays,
Ituana,
Marine Girls,
the Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Donny Hathaway,
Shoche,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deepchord,
Quando Quango,
Scratch Acid,
The Index,
Television Personalities,
Monolake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Magazine,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vainqueur,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.