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 Morocco and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Oblivians to the grime 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Isaac Hayes,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sällskapet,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gabor Szabo,
The Misunderstood,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fortunes,
Ossler,
Technova,
ABC,
The Leaves,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monochrome Set,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Absolute Body Control,
The Blues Magoos,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fluxion,
Bobby Womack,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Average White Band,
Cal Tjader,
Eurythmics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
D'Angelo,
Pulsallama,
Pagans,
New Age Steppers,
E-Dancer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Andrew Hill,
The Doors,
kango's stein massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roger Hodgson,
Model 500,
The Dirtbombs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Zapp,
Davy DMX,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blossom Toes,
Delta 5,
FM Einheit,
Beasts of Bourbon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bronski Beat,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül,
Ice-T,
Radiohead,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.