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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Shadows of Knight to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
James White and The Blacks,
Stiv Bators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Kayak,
Kerri Chandler,
The Doors,
LL Cool J,
Ronan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dave Gahan,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Whodini,
Bauhaus,
The United States of America,
Vladislav Delay,
The Barracudas,
Moby Grape,
The Gun Club,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cybotron,
Bad Manners,
Crispian St. Peters,
Das Ding,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Byrd,
Brick,
Q and Not U,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
Deakin,
Steve Hackett,
The Angels of Light,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Man Eating Sloth,
Erykah Badu,
The Star Department,
Jeff Lynne,
Oneida,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Womack,
Joe Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Dawn Penn,
Boz Scaggs,
Eddi Front,
Deepchord,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yazoo,
Lindisfarne,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.