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 Nauru and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Simply Red to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Ronan,
Minutemen,
Soulsonic Force,
Alice Coltrane,
Gichy Dan,
David McCallum,
Davy DMX,
Camberwell Now,
Pantaleimon,
Charles Mingus,
Dawn Penn,
Bob Dylan,
Half Japanese,
Spandau Ballet,
Section 25,
Yusef Lateef,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Animal Collective,
Fat Boys,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Altered Images,
Depeche Mode,
David Bowie,
Brothers Johnson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vladislav Delay,
T.S.O.L.,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Drive Like Jehu,
Liliput,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warren Ellis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Smog,
Kaleidoscope,
The J.B.'s,
Guru Guru,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
John Cale,
Mission of Burma,
Johnny Clarke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter & Gordon,
Iggy Pop,
The Stooges,
Black Bananas,
The Trojans,
Rites of Spring,
the Slits,
The Fortunes,
Bad Manners,
Delta 5,
Excepter,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.