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 Morocco and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Warsaw to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Rapeman,
The Mojo Men,
The Gap Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kayak,
Supertramp,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang Green,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
Radiohead,
Derrick Morgan,
OOIOO,
The Modern Lovers,
Altered Images,
Can,
Youth Brigade,
Gastr Del Sol,
Toni Rubio,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Association,
Janne Schatter,
Erasure,
Sonic Youth,
Pylon,
DJ Sneak,
Maleditus Sound,
Average White Band,
Brick,
Moby Grape,
The Cure,
The Dirtbombs,
The Seeds,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges,
Amon Düül,
Radiopuhelimet,
a-ha,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Urselle,
Organ,
Hashim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Angry Samoans,
Basic Channel,
Cal Tjader,
Wolf Eyes,
Eric Dolphy,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Human League,
Deadbeat,
New Age Steppers,
Howard Jones,
Terry Callier,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.