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 Dominican Republic and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Make Up to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Adolescents,
UT,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Jacques Brel,
Nas,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
The United States of America,
Erykah Badu,
Mark Hollis,
Sun Ra,
The Litter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
kango's stein massive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Görl,
Flamin' Groovies,
DNA,
Hasil Adkins,
Fad Gadget,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Cale,
The Dirtbombs,
Crime,
Rosa Yemen,
Donny Hathaway,
John Coltrane,
Gichy Dan,
Joe Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wally Richardson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stetsasonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
Roxette,
Skarface,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry's Kids,
Al Stewart,
Sex Pistols,
KRS-One,
Parry Music,
Pagans,
One Last Wish,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Oblivians,
U.S. Maple,
The Stooges,
New York Dolls,
Blancmange,
Chris & Cosey,
Deakin,
Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.