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 Finland and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Skatalites to the grime 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Severed Heads,
Ronnie Foster,
ABBA,
Hardrive,
Aswad,
Camberwell Now,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Icehouse,
The Fall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Reuben Wilson,
Bauhaus,
Fad Gadget,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barrington Levy,
KRS-One,
cv313,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Agitation Free,
Anthony Braxton,
Cheater Slicks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
E-Dancer,
Pantytec,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Isaac Hayes,
Oblivians,
Loose Ends,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Flesh Eaters,
Janne Schatter,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Ossler,
The Stooges,
Amon Düül II,
The Saints,
A Flock of Seagulls,
EPMD,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Howard Jones,
The Martian,
The Names,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers,
Cecil Taylor,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Busters,
Juan Atkins,
Lucky Dragons,
Radio Birdman,
Bad Manners,
Wings,
Steve Hackett,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.