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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Count Five to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Schoolly D,
James White and The Blacks,
CMW,
a-ha,
Joe Smooth,
Altered Images,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Idris Muhammad,
Quando Quango,
Marine Girls,
Second Layer,
X-101,
The Blackbyrds,
Severed Heads,
Byron Stingily,
The Blues Magoos,
The Knickerbockers,
Soul II Soul,
Kenny Larkin,
Neu!,
Monks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moody Blues,
Rapeman,
Cameo,
Aaron Thompson,
Harpers Bizarre,
R.M.O.,
Kas Product,
Faraquet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ten City,
Theoretical Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Motions,
Eve St. Jones,
L. Decosne,
Ultravox,
Wolf Eyes,
Scientists,
Radiopuhelimet,
Todd Terry,
Hashim,
Ludus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Urselle,
Johnny Clarke,
The Slackers,
Rites of Spring,
Isaac Hayes,
Mark Hollis,
Malaria!,
Bad Manners,
PIL,
Kerrie Biddell,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.