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 Greece and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slave to the punk 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Niagra,
Michelle Simonal,
Trumans Water,
the Human League,
Ornette Coleman,
The Kinks,
June of 44,
Alton Ellis,
LL Cool J,
The Durutti Column,
Visage,
Hardrive,
Iggy Pop,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Associates,
Brand Nubian,
Hot Snakes,
Derrick May,
The New Christs,
The Remains,
Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
The Grass Roots,
Loose Ends,
Make Up,
Little Man,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DJ Style,
Index,
Neu!,
Graham Central Station,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Standells,
Pylon,
Wire,
UT,
One Last Wish,
Metal Thangz,
Los Fastidios,
Juan Atkins,
Funky Four + One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Newcleus,
Marine Girls,
Infiniti,
the Germs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Franke,
the Swans,
Urselle,
Soulsonic Force,
Tom Boy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.