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 Papua New Guinea and from Seoul.
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 Tehran and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar 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 Sexual Harrassment to the dance 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Pole,
Hardrive,
Brothers Johnson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free,
Bob Dylan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joyce Sims,
Skaos,
Half Japanese,
The Misunderstood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Godley & Creme,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mad Mike,
Black Pus,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Blackbyrds,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Whodini,
Roxette,
Grauzone,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Can,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Litter,
Davy DMX,
Popol Vuh,
Steve Hackett,
Hashim,
Deadbeat,
Cecil Taylor,
Frankie Knuckles,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Barry Ungar,
Aural Exciters,
Slave,
Derrick May,
Byron Stingily,
Ludus,
Barbara Tucker,
Easy Going,
Oblivians,
Brass Construction,
Zero Boys,
Electric Prunes,
Fela Kuti,
kango's stein massive,
The United States of America,
Siglo XX,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Neil Young,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wally Richardson,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.