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 Lithuania and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Golliwogs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mr. Review,
Boz Scaggs,
Little Man,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Womack,
Maurizio,
La Düsseldorf,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
Iggy Pop,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Royal Trux,
Johnny Clarke,
the Slits,
Black Flag,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Infiniti,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aural Exciters,
Heaven 17,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
The Kinks,
Slick Rick,
Blancmange,
The Doors,
Ice-T,
The Gap Band,
Skarface,
Joensuu 1685,
Michelle Simonal,
The Misunderstood,
Electric Prunes,
Talk Talk,
Amazonics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
June Days,
The New Christs,
The Busters,
Masters at Work,
MC5,
Negative Approach,
Eric Dolphy,
ABC,
Nils Olav,
Letta Mbulu,
Inner City,
Von Mondo,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
Amon Düül II,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Cale,
Delta 5,
Terry Callier,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pagans,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.