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 Guyana and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Barrington Levy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne 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?
Derrick May,
The Residents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Grauzone,
Josef K,
The Skatalites,
Ken Boothe,
The Divine Comedy,
Fela Kuti,
Gil Scott Heron,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eden Ahbez,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unwound,
David Bowie,
Chris & Cosey,
Erykah Badu,
The Slits,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Young Marble Giants,
10cc,
Colin Newman,
Anakelly,
The Toasters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Swans,
Monks,
Desert Stars,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
cv313,
Easy Going,
Zero Boys,
Glenn Branca,
FM Einheit,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
The Happenings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Guru Guru,
Skaos,
Tres Demented,
Radio Birdman,
Dead Boys,
Quadrant,
Blake Baxter,
Au Pairs,
The Doobie Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
Niagra,
Derrick Morgan,
The Buckinghams,
Marc Almond,
Joensuu 1685,
the Germs,
Rekid,
Technova,
Deakin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Junior Murvin,
Infiniti,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.