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 Sudan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 June Days to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Funkadelic,
Gabor Szabo,
The Smoke,
Ultravox,
cv313,
Roxy Music,
Gang Green,
The Saints,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Max Romeo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
MDC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DJ Style,
Erasure,
Flipper,
AZ,
Young Marble Giants,
Pulsallama,
James White and The Blacks,
Dead Boys,
Fela Kuti,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Radiopuhelimet,
Panda Bear,
Television,
Dave Gahan,
The Busters,
Unwound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
Can,
Pylon,
Leonard Cohen,
F. McDonald,
The Gories,
Groovy Waters,
The Barracudas,
Icehouse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Fania All-Stars,
DJ Sneak,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
The Names,
Fatback Band,
Blossom Toes,
Los Fastidios,
The Toasters,
Schoolly D,
Steve Hackett,
Black Moon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Real Kids,
K-Klass,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aaron Thompson,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.