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 Azerbaijan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Crooked Eye to the punk 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
World's Most,
Gang Starr,
Rufus Thomas,
Judy Mowatt,
Eric Copeland,
Idris Muhammad,
Japan,
Monolake,
The Knickerbockers,
Quando Quango,
China Crisis,
Piero Umiliani,
Television,
Gerry Rafferty,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
ABC,
Pierre Henry,
Main Source,
Tomorrow,
The Tremeloes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Schoolly D,
The Angels of Light,
Popol Vuh,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Enemy,
Roxy Music,
Y Pants,
Prince Buster,
Chrome,
Shuggie Otis,
Althea and Donna,
DJ Sneak,
Rites of Spring,
Grey Daturas,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Pus,
Rotary Connection,
the Normal,
Camberwell Now,
The Count Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultravox,
The Move,
Groovy Waters,
Steve Hackett,
Scan 7,
Gichy Dan,
Derrick May,
The Durutti Column,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Happenings,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bang On A Can,
Agitation Free,
Supertramp,
Drexciya,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.