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 Montenegro and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Alton Ellis to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Wings,
In Retrospect,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Brand Nubian,
Underground Resistance,
Television,
Traffic Nightmare,
Darondo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
The Divine Comedy,
Masters at Work,
The Dead C,
Bobby Womack,
Wire,
Kas Product,
Chrome,
Vainqueur,
Fela Kuti,
Kayak,
Livin' Joy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echospace,
Rakim,
Inner City,
Half Japanese,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Shadows of Knight,
These Immortal Souls,
Kenny Larkin,
Guru Guru,
Black Pus,
The Seeds,
Harmonia,
Sonic Youth,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
PIL,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zapp,
The Toasters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Sonics,
David Axelrod,
Whodini,
John Coltrane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moody Blues,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Saccharine Trust,
Donny Hathaway,
Symarip,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.