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 Slovenia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harry Pussy to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Qualms,
Rufus Thomas,
Leonard Cohen,
Mark Hollis,
Amon Düül II,
The United States of America,
Ultra Naté,
a-ha,
Alice Coltrane,
Deepchord,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bush Tetras,
Bill Wells,
The Walker Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Tomorrow,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marc Almond,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Moon,
John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
Amon Düül,
Bobby Sherman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
Maleditus Sound,
Supertramp,
Sam Rivers,
Ossler,
R.M.O.,
The Slits,
Donald Byrd,
Grey Daturas,
Barbara Tucker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cowsills,
The Searchers,
Minnie Riperton,
The Knickerbockers,
Tres Demented,
Donny Hathaway,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MDC,
The Star Department,
La Düsseldorf,
X-Ray Spex,
Peter and Kerry,
Kas Product,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aaron Thompson,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.