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 Mauritania and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Deadbeat to the rock 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Robert Wyatt,
Barrington Levy,
Deadbeat,
Soulsonic Force,
Colin Newman,
Accadde A,
James White and The Blacks,
FM Einheit,
The Angels of Light,
Wally Richardson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerri Chandler,
Tubeway Army,
Grandmaster Flash,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
Heaven 17,
Erykah Badu,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Bananas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scrapy,
Black Sheep,
Yaz,
Underground Resistance,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Sonics,
Black Flag,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
The Pretty Things,
Bluetip,
Hashim,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
The Monks,
Dave Gahan,
kango's stein massive,
Sixth Finger,
The Dirtbombs,
The Litter,
The Smoke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eric Copeland,
Angry Samoans,
Model 500,
X-101,
The Cowsills,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scratch Acid,
Rosa Yemen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Funkadelic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camouflage,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.