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 St Lucia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the dance 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Donald Byrd,
Severed Heads,
Oneida,
The Gories,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sandy B,
Skriet,
Jandek,
The Associates,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
Excepter,
Groovy Waters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
This Heat,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fall,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Icehouse,
Roger Hodgson,
Mr. Review,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lindisfarne,
Barbara Tucker,
Yusef Lateef,
the Fania All-Stars,
CMW,
Ralphi Rosario,
B.T. Express,
the Human League,
MDC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skaos,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mission of Burma,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quantec,
Tomorrow,
ABC,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hardrive,
Bobby Byrd,
Roy Ayers,
Eurythmics,
Erasure,
The Wake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Byron Stingily,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kaleidoscope,
UT,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.