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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Easy Going to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Stetsasonic,
Clear Light,
Cluster,
The Cure,
Blancmange,
Ice-T,
The Shadows of Knight,
Inner City,
UT,
Aswad,
Deakin,
Deepchord,
Second Layer,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Iggy Pop,
Shuggie Otis,
Joe Smooth,
Television Personalities,
Pulsallama,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ohio Players,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bluetip,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Birthday Party,
The Durutti Column,
Ponytail,
Essential Logic,
Moss Icon,
Josef K,
Pole,
Aloha Tigers,
a-ha,
Deadbeat,
The Monks,
Jacob Miller,
Thee Headcoats,
Chris & Cosey,
Gabor Szabo,
Mission of Burma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heaven 17,
Sister Nancy,
Urselle,
Grey Daturas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Can,
Slick Rick,
The Toasters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
The Monochrome Set,
EPMD,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pantaleimon,
Thompson Twins,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.