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 Fiji and from Sao Paulo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soul Sonic Force to the disco 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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Moody Blues,
the Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
Motorama,
Jeru the Damaja,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Christie,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camouflage,
Matthew Bourne,
Sam Rivers,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
The Toasters,
Jeff Mills,
The Electric Prunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Second Layer,
The Residents,
Boredoms,
Con Funk Shun,
Tomorrow,
Television Personalities,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The American Breed,
Tres Demented,
Amon Düül II,
Wire,
The Seeds,
Cheater Slicks,
Spandau Ballet,
Cymande,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Bar-Kays,
Suburban Knight,
Smog,
Black Pus,
Faust,
T.S.O.L.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Big Daddy Kane,
Henry Cow,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terry Callier,
Supertramp,
Unwound,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.