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 Chile and from New York.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Cymande to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Grauzone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
One Last Wish,
Sparks,
The Standells,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
The Durutti Column,
Gichy Dan,
X-101,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pulsallama,
Lebanon Hanover,
48th St. Collective,
Stetsasonic,
Maurizio,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül II,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nico,
The Leaves,
Joey Negro,
Television,
Arcadia,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
The Velvet Underground,
Aswad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Busters,
Bush Tetras,
Boz Scaggs,
Quantec,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Byron Stingily,
Underground Resistance,
Cymande,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
T.S.O.L.,
Derrick May,
Fugazi,
Kevin Saunderson,
The United States of America,
Skriet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Trojans,
Ronan,
Khruangbin,
Youth Brigade,
Ituana,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.