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 Grenada and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 The Stooges to the electroclash 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Janne Schatter,
Rosa Yemen,
Animal Collective,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Thompson Twins,
Charles Mingus,
Oneida,
Bronski Beat,
Althea and Donna,
Nico,
Kayak,
The Trojans,
Surgeon,
Electric Prunes,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
Sound Behaviour,
Eve St. Jones,
The Beau Brummels,
John Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
Intrusion,
Monks,
Aural Exciters,
Maleditus Sound,
The Toasters,
Graham Central Station,
the Normal,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arthur Verocai,
Echospace,
June Days,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boredoms,
Cal Tjader,
Jeff Lynne,
Duran Duran,
The Electric Prunes,
Eurythmics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pylon,
Yazoo,
The Music Machine,
Loose Ends,
The Grass Roots,
Skarface,
Pussy Galore,
Delta 5,
Howard Jones,
Television Personalities,
Sun Ra,
Traffic Nightmare,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stereo Dub,
Basic Channel,
Dark Day,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.