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 Korea North and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Nation of Ulysses to the electroclash 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sound,
Inner City,
Leonard Cohen,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Stooges,
Banda Bassotti,
Scion,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Martian,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Chris & Cosey,
Sarah Menescal,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris Corsano,
Interpol,
Isaac Hayes,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Eli Mardock,
Arab on Radar,
The Monochrome Set,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
PIL,
Altered Images,
X-102,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fugs,
Rufus Thomas,
Ronnie Foster,
Drexciya,
Pulsallama,
The Saints,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joe Finger,
CMW,
Stiv Bators,
Animal Collective,
Jacques Brel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delta 5,
Zapp,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Busters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camouflage,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Franke,
the Bar-Kays,
U.S. Maple,
Cal Tjader,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Faraquet,
Stetsasonic,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.