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 St Lucia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 X-102 to the crunk 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
The Selecter,
Basic Channel,
Masters at Work,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nirvana,
Gang Green,
Alison Limerick,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
The Cure,
Mars,
Yellowson,
Sight & Sound,
Procol Harum,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Simply Red,
Gong,
X-102,
Eddi Front,
Chris & Cosey,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
kango's stein massive,
Zapp,
The Star Department,
Quantec,
a-ha,
The Motions,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wasted Youth,
Letta Mbulu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Unwound,
Sugar Minott,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
Stetsasonic,
Roxy Music,
Barclay James Harvest,
Byron Stingily,
Metal Thangz,
This Heat,
AZ,
Panda Bear,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Delta 5,
Model 500,
Hardrive,
Carl Craig,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crooked Eye,
the Human League,
Joe Finger,
Lucky Dragons,
The Real Kids,
MC5,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.