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 Malaysia and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Move. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tom Boy,
Dave Gahan,
Tommy Roe,
Sexual Harrassment,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marvin Gaye,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Guru Guru,
Pole,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonny Sharrock,
Subhumans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
Cheater Slicks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skaos,
The Gap Band,
Grauzone,
the Sonics,
Wasted Youth,
DJ Sneak,
Sister Nancy,
Ice-T,
Fluxion,
Kenny Larkin,
Q65,
Second Layer,
the Germs,
Funky Four + One,
Vladislav Delay,
Jawbox,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ludus,
Sixth Finger,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang of Four,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nils Olav,
Derrick May,
Pagans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harry Pussy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hashim,
Nick Fraelich,
Big Daddy Kane,
Main Source,
Pantytec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.