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 Italy and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Yazoo to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Reagan Youth,
K-Klass,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The J.B.'s,
Yaz,
Panda Bear,
Organ,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Moby Grape,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Young Marble Giants,
AZ,
Funky Four + One,
Mandrill,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül II,
MDC,
Charles Mingus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Trojans,
Kas Product,
Camberwell Now,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Certain Ratio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Whodini,
Quantec,
Brand Nubian,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moss Icon,
John Foxx,
China Crisis,
Lightning Bolt,
Maurizio,
CMW,
Buzzcocks,
Tears for Fears,
The Gladiators,
The Slackers,
Qualms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Evens,
The United States of America,
Yellowson,
Motorama,
Rosa Yemen,
The Walker Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Human League,
Arab on Radar,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.