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 Finland and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 R.M.O. to the crunk 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
the Human League,
Judy Mowatt,
Sugar Minott,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doors,
DJ Sneak,
the Association,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roger Hodgson,
Au Pairs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young,
Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Ronan,
The Grass Roots,
The Knickerbockers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nirvana,
Arthur Verocai,
The Searchers,
Motorama,
Parry Music,
The Misunderstood,
Faust,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joensuu 1685,
The Star Department,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
B.T. Express,
Johnny Clarke,
The Litter,
Glambeats Corp.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Procol Harum,
a-ha,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deakin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
Matthew Bourne,
Cameo,
The Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Slits,
Scan 7,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Golliwogs,
Crooked Eye,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.