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 Czech Republic and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Peter and Kerry to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Public Enemy,
Ultra Naté,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Trojans,
Wasted Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zero Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Sound Behaviour,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Make Up,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
Faust,
Altered Images,
the Slits,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
E-Dancer,
Little Man,
Wolf Eyes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Erykah Badu,
Neu!,
Ohio Players,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joensuu 1685,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
AZ,
Cluster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Laurel Aitken,
Swell Maps,
Roger Hodgson,
Kaleidoscope,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
R.M.O.,
Von Mondo,
Sex Pistols,
Bronski Beat,
Fluxion,
Terry Callier,
Radiohead,
Quadrant,
David Bowie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Deadbeat,
Mad Mike,
The Buckinghams,
Smog,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
Inner City,
Television,
The Monochrome Set,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.