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 Uzbekistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum 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 Man Eating Sloth to the crunk 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
UT,
Swans,
Saccharine Trust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Roxette,
Underground Resistance,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crime,
Little Man,
The Pop Group,
Gang Green,
Chris & Cosey,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultra Naté,
Nik Kershaw,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bluetip,
B.T. Express,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Real Kids,
Sparks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Patti Smith,
Infiniti,
Glenn Branca,
Delta 5,
Animal Collective,
The Trojans,
Guru Guru,
Ice-T,
The Wake,
Drexciya,
Laurel Aitken,
The Tremeloes,
Mr. Review,
Shoche,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Misunderstood,
Morten Harket,
The Five Americans,
Judy Mowatt,
Yazoo,
Flipper,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Association,
Sixth Finger,
Harry Pussy,
Wally Richardson,
Cybotron,
Peter and Kerry,
Yusef Lateef,
Rites of Spring,
Technova,
Make Up,
Althea and Donna,
Monolake,
Rotary Connection,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.