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 Tunisia and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the 808 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 The Happenings to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Nirvana,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Bar-Kays,
John Lydon,
Kurtis Blow,
Trumans Water,
Easy Going,
Groovy Waters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minor Threat,
Aswad,
Chris & Cosey,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Section 25,
The Raincoats,
Roy Ayers,
Carl Craig,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Little Man,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
New Order,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Clear Light,
Quando Quango,
Japan,
Bang On A Can,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Monochrome Set,
E-Dancer,
The Monks,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pole,
Susan Cadogan,
The Skatalites,
Brass Construction,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Donald Byrd,
Public Enemy,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Intrusion,
Hashim,
Unwound,
The Cowsills,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.