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 Mexico and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Rekid to the grunge 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Bush Tetras,
Con Funk Shun,
D'Angelo,
Blake Baxter,
John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hardrive,
Derrick May,
Zero Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Charles Mingus,
Mo-Dettes,
Tim Buckley,
Scrapy,
PIL,
Aloha Tigers,
James White and The Blacks,
Cal Tjader,
Das Ding,
Basic Channel,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sonny Sharrock,
Symarip,
The Star Department,
Funkadelic,
One Last Wish,
Sun City Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Knickerbockers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Rufus Thomas,
Vladislav Delay,
June Days,
Black Bananas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mandrill,
Letta Mbulu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soul II Soul,
Little Man,
The Dirtbombs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
X-Ray Spex,
Marvin Gaye,
The Vogues,
Aural Exciters,
The Searchers,
Brick,
Minor Threat,
Hoover,
Dave Gahan,
Graham Central Station,
Sandy B,
H. Thieme,
Metal Thangz,
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.