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 Lesotho and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kayak to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pagans,
Hasil Adkins,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Rapeman,
Q65,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
David Axelrod,
Surgeon,
Warsaw,
Pere Ubu,
Bobby Womack,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Isaac Hayes,
Trumans Water,
Reuben Wilson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
Mad Mike,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minutemen,
Bobby Sherman,
the Sonics,
The Doors,
Yellowson,
The Star Department,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxette,
Ultra Naté,
Popol Vuh,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Deepchord,
Graham Central Station,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ronnie Foster,
Prince Buster,
Amazonics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kerri Chandler,
World's Most,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter and Kerry,
Jerry's Kids,
The Pretty Things,
Sparks,
Niagra,
DNA,
Magma,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.