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 Tonga and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ituana to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Nas,
Alison Limerick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sight & Sound,
Whodini,
Schoolly D,
Zapp,
Eve St. Jones,
Laurel Aitken,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cheater Slicks,
The Residents,
The Standells,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Terry,
Camouflage,
Lyres,
Bobby Sherman,
Marvin Gaye,
Underground Resistance,
Nik Kershaw,
CMW,
The Slackers,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
Fluxion,
Mad Mike,
John Cale,
The Divine Comedy,
Yellowson,
The Invisible,
Quantec,
Piero Umiliani,
The Blues Magoos,
Surgeon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maleditus Sound,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bush Tetras,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Swans,
Radio Birdman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jerry's Kids,
Circle Jerks,
Fela Kuti,
Wolf Eyes,
The Dead C,
The Walker Brothers,
Scientists,
The Skatalites,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cal Tjader,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mantronix,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.