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 United Kingdom and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ice-T to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Crash Course in Science,
World's Most,
Graham Central Station,
Lee Hazlewood,
Funkadelic,
Eurythmics,
Skarface,
H. Thieme,
Minnie Riperton,
Gabor Szabo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Donald Byrd,
CMW,
Josef K,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
Fear,
Desert Stars,
Freddie Wadling,
Fatback Band,
Ken Boothe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Human League,
Judy Mowatt,
Wire,
Kas Product,
The Fugs,
The Remains,
Au Pairs,
The Move,
Television Personalities,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Joey Negro,
Gregory Isaacs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Moleskins,
Dave Gahan,
Avey Tare,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Knickerbockers,
Dawn Penn,
Kayak,
Shoche,
Alice Coltrane,
Talk Talk,
Subhumans,
Country Teasers,
Dennis Brown,
Black Bananas,
Throbbing Gristle,
Symarip,
The United States of America,
Visage,
Soul II Soul,
Urselle,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lakeside,
The J.B.'s,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Masters at Work,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.