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 Grenada and from Accra.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flipper to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bauhaus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
MC5,
Skriet,
Jeff Lynne,
Darondo,
FM Einheit,
Whodini,
Technova,
Zero Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Silicon Teens,
Hasil Adkins,
Adolescents,
Second Layer,
Grauzone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
Jandek,
Patti Smith,
Newcleus,
X-Ray Spex,
The Human League,
Y Pants,
Soft Machine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yazoo,
the Swans,
The Seeds,
Symarip,
Faraquet,
Hardrive,
Janne Schatter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
Blake Baxter,
Cybotron,
Radio Birdman,
Intrusion,
Eddi Front,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dennis Brown,
cv313,
Althea and Donna,
Fad Gadget,
Ralphi Rosario,
Max Romeo,
Nas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Parry Music,
The Blues Magoos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
A Certain Ratio,
Can,
The Evens,
The Buckinghams,
Au Pairs,
David Bowie,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.