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 Guatemala and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Massinfluence to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Minutemen,
B.T. Express,
Hasil Adkins,
Nirvana,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pulsallama,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cowsills,
Rotary Connection,
Scientists,
Nick Fraelich,
Carl Craig,
Crime,
Icehouse,
Roy Ayers,
Isaac Hayes,
World's Most,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Motions,
The Buckinghams,
Cybotron,
Basic Channel,
Kayak,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slits,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Heaven 17,
Erykah Badu,
Second Layer,
Grauzone,
Ultravox,
Gang of Four,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warsaw,
Nik Kershaw,
Patti Smith,
Fat Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick Morgan,
Bush Tetras,
The Walker Brothers,
Rosa Yemen,
Funkadelic,
Masters at Work,
Saccharine Trust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radiohead,
kango's stein massive,
Thee Headcoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash,
Magma,
Pussy Galore,
The Smiths,
Matthew Halsall,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.