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 Philippines and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet 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 Yellowson to the disco 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Michelle Simonal,
JFA,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Depeche Mode,
Moby Grape,
Susan Cadogan,
X-101,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Little Man,
Pulsallama,
The Tremeloes,
In Retrospect,
The Neon Judgement,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Index,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quando Quango,
Josef K,
Howard Jones,
Bronski Beat,
Hoover,
DJ Sneak,
ABBA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Stooges,
Pantaleimon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Drexciya,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nirvana,
Bobby Hutcherson,
New Order,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Boredoms,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camouflage,
the Slits,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Flash Fearless,
Brick,
Rekid,
Youth Brigade,
The Evens,
Von Mondo,
La Düsseldorf,
Letta Mbulu,
Pagans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joe Finger,
The Flesh Eaters,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.