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 Nigeria and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DNA to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pagans,
Harmonia,
Metal Thangz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The New Christs,
Harry Pussy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
The Residents,
The Index,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Clarke,
Grauzone,
The Cure,
Alison Limerick,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Massinfluence,
Erykah Badu,
David McCallum,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Anakelly,
Howard Jones,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Association,
John Foxx,
The Young Rascals,
One Last Wish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick May,
Stereo Dub,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
Joensuu 1685,
JFA,
PIL,
Sixth Finger,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Laurel Aitken,
Mandrill,
Basic Channel,
UT,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Fania All-Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Deadbeat,
Colin Newman,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tres Demented,
cv313,
Letta Mbulu,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.