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 Albania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 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 Bootsy Collins to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
The Modern Lovers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Flag,
UT,
The Golliwogs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pylon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Popol Vuh,
Liliput,
Aaron Thompson,
ABBA,
Roy Ayers,
Darondo,
Pussy Galore,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Connie Case,
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Bang On A Can,
Intrusion,
Dead Boys,
The Remains,
Animal Collective,
Clear Light,
Duran Duran,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kayak,
The Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Barrington Levy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Zeros,
Cal Tjader,
Nas,
The Doors,
Severed Heads,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott Heron,
Charles Mingus,
Qualms,
Hasil Adkins,
Bill Wells,
The Associates,
Dawn Penn,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Tremeloes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ten City,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Simply Red,
David Axelrod,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.