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 Ireland and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum 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 New Order to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Tubeway Army,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jawbox,
E-Dancer,
The Alarm Clocks,
DNA,
Buzzcocks,
Deadbeat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eurythmics,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fall,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Amon Düül II,
Fela Kuti,
Kaleidoscope,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pierre Henry,
The Fire Engines,
Joe Finger,
X-102,
AZ,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gories,
James White and The Blacks,
Minor Threat,
Howard Jones,
Ohio Players,
Yazoo,
Wire,
Mad Mike,
Tommy Roe,
This Heat,
Visage,
The Zeros,
John Holt,
Susan Cadogan,
R.M.O.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kayak,
Radio Birdman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Moss Icon,
Pagans,
Boredoms,
The Gun Club,
the Slits,
Letta Mbulu,
Blossom Toes,
Monks,
Stiv Bators,
Wings,
Yusef Lateef,
Gichy Dan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Starr,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Sparks,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.