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 Italy and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ 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 Stetsasonic to the grime 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Icehouse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alton Ellis,
Motorama,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Barracudas,
Maurizio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Monochrome Set,
Negative Approach,
Subhumans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Shoche,
R.M.O.,
Scott Walker,
a-ha,
Ice-T,
The Monks,
The United States of America,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang Green,
MDC,
Gregory Isaacs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
Fad Gadget,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Starr,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Detroit Cobras,
Brothers Johnson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mark Hollis,
The Birthday Party,
48th St. Collective,
John Cale,
Alphaville,
Stereo Dub,
Zero Boys,
Ludus,
The Durutti Column,
June of 44,
Kas Product,
Man Eating Sloth,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun City Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
Angry Samoans,
KRS-One,
Babytalk,
Robert Hood,
Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mojo Men,
Monolake,
The Last Poets,
Harmonia,
Essential Logic,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.