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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Excepter to the dance 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
The Motions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobby Womack,
Television,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wings,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Smoke,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zero Boys,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Standells,
Spoonie Gee,
Fear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Prince Buster,
Kas Product,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Barracudas,
John Coltrane,
Moebius,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gichy Dan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
KRS-One,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
T. Rex,
Black Pus,
kango's stein massive,
Quando Quango,
Essential Logic,
Bob Dylan,
Mr. Review,
Unrelated Segments,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ossler,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wire,
Stockholm Monsters,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Panda Bear,
Harpers Bizarre,
Animal Collective,
Howard Jones,
the Slits,
The Tremeloes,
Sparks,
the Germs,
Skriet,
Donald Byrd,
MC5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Swans,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.