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 Denmark and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar 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 the Normal to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Steve Hackett,
Metal Thangz,
The Zeros,
Darondo,
Section 25,
Swans,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Judy Mowatt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jawbox,
Duran Duran,
Reuben Wilson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Fraelich,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
UT,
Jesper Dahlback,
AZ,
Johnny Clarke,
World's Most,
Crime,
The Cure,
Bobby Sherman,
Patti Smith,
Gong,
Maleditus Sound,
Sister Nancy,
The Kinks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Main Source,
Gang Gang Dance,
Simply Red,
Fluxion,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skriet,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funkadelic,
Hashim,
The Index,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Buckinghams,
The Fuzztones,
Jacques Brel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.