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 Cyprus and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Neu! to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lou Reed,
The Last Poets,
The New Christs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moby Grape,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cal Tjader,
New York Dolls,
Q and Not U,
Brick,
Qualms,
Shoche,
Mo-Dettes,
Thompson Twins,
John Foxx,
Audionom,
Isaac Hayes,
Joyce Sims,
The Real Kids,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Standells,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
The Buckinghams,
Bizarre Inc.,
Duran Duran,
Rites of Spring,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Zeros,
Con Funk Shun,
Zero Boys,
The Fall,
D'Angelo,
The Velvet Underground,
Section 25,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Byrd,
Sandy B,
Essential Logic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Barracudas,
Barry Ungar,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lalann,
Black Bananas,
The Dirtbombs,
Eden Ahbez,
Fat Boys,
Carl Craig,
Dave Gahan,
The Searchers,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.