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 Nicaragua and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Sheep to the grunge 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Bobby Womack,
Faust,
Lou Reed,
Royal Trux,
Dennis Brown,
FM Einheit,
Model 500,
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
Symarip,
The United States of America,
Byron Stingily,
Alton Ellis,
Dual Sessions,
the Normal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
The Kinks,
Steve Hackett,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cymande,
Guru Guru,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Clarke,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bill Near,
Harmonia,
Traffic Nightmare,
Toni Rubio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tom Boy,
Godley & Creme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pussy Galore,
The J.B.'s,
Moebius,
A Certain Ratio,
Y Pants,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Beau Brummels,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Fania All-Stars,
Clear Light,
Easy Going,
Das Ding,
Loose Ends,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
David Axelrod,
The Martian,
DJ Style,
The Human League,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxy Music,
Isaac Hayes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cheater Slicks,
Pantaleimon,
China Crisis,
Oblivians,
Depeche Mode,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.