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 Guinea-Bissau and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Black Pus to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter & Gordon,
Y Pants,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joey Negro,
Scan 7,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gabor Szabo,
The Monks,
Liliput,
Cameo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Electric Prunes,
Unrelated Segments,
Amazonics,
Ponytail,
T. Rex,
Maurizio,
Agent Orange,
Thee Headcoats,
Excepter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Franke,
Mantronix,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Enemy,
Colin Newman,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Qualms,
Aloha Tigers,
Soul II Soul,
The Misunderstood,
Section 25,
Marine Girls,
Animal Collective,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fat Boys,
Ice-T,
The Barracudas,
The Tremeloes,
Severed Heads,
Zapp,
Harry Pussy,
Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
Nirvana,
Matthew Halsall,
Big Daddy Kane,
June of 44,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Shoche,
The Move,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.