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 Gambia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Public Image Ltd. to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Piero Umiliani,
The Move,
The Motions,
Carl Craig,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sex Pistols,
Dennis Brown,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jeru the Damaja,
A Certain Ratio,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Bourne,
a-ha,
Brass Construction,
The Walker Brothers,
Japan,
Newcleus,
Black Bananas,
Cheater Slicks,
JFA,
OOIOO,
Maurizio,
Jacques Brel,
Tom Boy,
Bad Manners,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Slits,
Surgeon,
The Trojans,
Ituana,
Metal Thangz,
The Red Krayola,
World's Most,
The Cowsills,
Arab on Radar,
Nation of Ulysses,
Glenn Branca,
Minor Threat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Main Source,
The Residents,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Soft Machine,
Jandek,
D'Angelo,
Suburban Knight,
Scan 7,
The Blackbyrds,
Excepter,
Al Stewart,
Susan Cadogan,
the Soft Cell,
Blancmange,
48th St. Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.