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 Jordan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Dave Gahan to the jazz 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Chris Corsano,
Soul II Soul,
The Victims,
Intrusion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sex Pistols,
Black Bananas,
The Trojans,
Graham Central Station,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Terry,
Circle Jerks,
Angry Samoans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Enemy,
New Order,
Harmonia,
The Seeds,
Kerri Chandler,
Radiohead,
The Fugs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Depeche Mode,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultravox,
cv313,
Derrick Morgan,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Searchers,
Skaos,
Soul Sonic Force,
Urselle,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Halsall,
Gabor Szabo,
Ten City,
X-102,
The Fall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lindisfarne,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
James White and The Blacks,
Peter and Kerry,
Darondo,
Albert Ayler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Electric Prunes,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Eurythmics,
Marvin Gaye,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Soft Machine,
Masters at Work,
Arab on Radar,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.