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 Norway and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
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 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 Mark Hollis to the punk 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Bootsy Collins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Royal Trux,
Unrelated Segments,
Flash Fearless,
The Pretty Things,
Hasil Adkins,
a-ha,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
The United States of America,
Erykah Badu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Enemy,
The Litter,
China Crisis,
Soft Machine,
Young Marble Giants,
Arcadia,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Ken Boothe,
Brand Nubian,
The Mummies,
Grey Daturas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Theoretical Girls,
Cal Tjader,
Wings,
The Fall,
Pole,
Cheater Slicks,
Sonic Youth,
Tubeway Army,
Radiopuhelimet,
Blancmange,
Flamin' Groovies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
AZ,
The Sonics,
Flipper,
Motorama,
Animal Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roxy Music,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Amazonics,
Ituana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Pop Group,
The Invisible,
The Buckinghams,
Liliput,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fela Kuti,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.