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 Panama and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 The Barracudas to the dance 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Sam Rivers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül II,
Dual Sessions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
UT,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ralphi Rosario,
Skaos,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eddi Front,
The Modern Lovers,
Section 25,
Grauzone,
Blake Baxter,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Swans,
Henry Cow,
The Moody Blues,
Danielle Patucci,
Popol Vuh,
X-Ray Spex,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fuzztones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rekid,
Guru Guru,
Livin' Joy,
Pierre Henry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Moleskins,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pantaleimon,
Sonic Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Pulsallama,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wire,
The Trojans,
Harmonia,
Judy Mowatt,
LL Cool J,
The Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brick,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Flag,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.