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 Azerbaijan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Oblivians to the grime 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
KRS-One,
The Happenings,
Janne Schatter,
The Gun Club,
Danielle Patucci,
The Raincoats,
The Selecter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ken Boothe,
The Young Rascals,
Bill Wells,
Sex Pistols,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-Ray Spex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Slits,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marmalade,
Alison Limerick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Tropical Tobacco,
Simply Red,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Arab on Radar,
Model 500,
Kaleidoscope,
Adolescents,
Mission of Burma,
Eden Ahbez,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soulsonic Force,
The Victims,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonny Sharrock,
CMW,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Searchers,
Chris Corsano,
World's Most,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Don Cherry,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Alphaville,
Hasil Adkins,
Stetsasonic,
Black Sheep,
Marvin Gaye,
Audionom,
Charles Mingus,
Johnny Clarke,
ABC,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.