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 Kuwait and from London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Dark Day to the techno 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Faraquet,
Radio Birdman,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Index,
Livin' Joy,
Ponytail,
Deadbeat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kerri Chandler,
Reagan Youth,
Wire,
Gang Green,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Newcleus,
John Lydon,
H. Thieme,
Nik Kershaw,
Lyres,
The Fortunes,
Wings,
Jandek,
Animal Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
The Seeds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The American Breed,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cramps,
X-101,
Ohio Players,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
OOIOO,
Minny Pops,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pretty Things,
the Slits,
Max Romeo,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Derrick May,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fugazi,
Siglo XX,
Barrington Levy,
Robert Görl,
Wasted Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Normal,
Skarface,
Matthew Bourne,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.