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 Japan and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Y Pants to the dance 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
New Order,
Altered Images,
Junior Murvin,
E-Dancer,
Spandau Ballet,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joy Division,
The Count Five,
R.M.O.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Drexciya,
Trumans Water,
Franke,
The Knickerbockers,
Lyres,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fad Gadget,
Interpol,
The Star Department,
Sex Pistols,
Can,
Newcleus,
Peter & Gordon,
Pulsallama,
Juan Atkins,
Cecil Taylor,
Visage,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flash Fearless,
Joey Negro,
Colin Newman,
Roger Hodgson,
Man Parrish,
June of 44,
The Dave Clark Five,
Spoonie Gee,
Nils Olav,
Electric Prunes,
Max Romeo,
Ultravox,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Wyatt,
Technova,
CMW,
Mo-Dettes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Babytalk,
The Fortunes,
The Neon Judgement,
Accadde A,
Theoretical Girls,
Bad Manners,
Scrapy,
Kurtis Blow,
Duran Duran,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alice Coltrane,
Loose Ends,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.