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 Mongolia and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Human League to the crunk 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Moby Grape,
Hoover,
Althea and Donna,
The Monks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Simply Red,
Gang of Four,
Mark Hollis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sam Rivers,
The Kinks,
Erykah Badu,
Kurtis Blow,
Procol Harum,
Eric Copeland,
the Normal,
Ultravox,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Depeche Mode,
Mr. Review,
Jeru the Damaja,
Camberwell Now,
John Holt,
Pantaleimon,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Terry,
Supertramp,
The Saints,
The Seeds,
Jacob Miller,
Bronski Beat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Todd Rundgren,
Symarip,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Glambeats Corp.,
Carl Craig,
Nik Kershaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suburban Knight,
Technova,
Albert Ayler,
Freddie Wadling,
Max Romeo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Golliwogs,
The Grass Roots,
Monolake,
Surgeon,
The Gap Band,
Eric Dolphy,
The Knickerbockers,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.