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 Sudan and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the electroclash 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Joe Smooth,
L. Decosne,
Sun City Girls,
E-Dancer,
Au Pairs,
The Raincoats,
Tomorrow,
The Sound,
The Golliwogs,
The Names,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blancmange,
The Skatalites,
Robert Wyatt,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cramps,
The Fall,
Funky Four + One,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Count Five,
Faust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yazoo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joensuu 1685,
Lightning Bolt,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang of Four,
The Dave Clark Five,
Youth Brigade,
Ken Boothe,
The Gap Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cybotron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tommy Roe,
Vladislav Delay,
Magazine,
John Foxx,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
Q and Not U,
Janne Schatter,
Interpol,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
LL Cool J,
Peter and Kerry,
Bootsy Collins,
The Last Poets,
Barry Ungar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stiv Bators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Godley & Creme,
Flash Fearless,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.