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 Slovakia and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ 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 Nils Olav to the punk 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dead Boys,
Eurythmics,
Erasure,
Joe Finger,
Jeff Mills,
Connie Case,
The Trojans,
Monks,
the Bar-Kays,
The Last Poets,
Duran Duran,
Curtis Mayfield,
Urselle,
Blancmange,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Rundgren,
Dark Day,
Bluetip,
Susan Cadogan,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tres Demented,
Theoretical Girls,
Marine Girls,
Pantytec,
John Foxx,
Au Pairs,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roxy Music,
Matthew Halsall,
Ponytail,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sparks,
Oblivians,
Toni Rubio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
PIL,
The Red Krayola,
X-101,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Public Enemy,
Stiv Bators,
Blake Baxter,
L. Decosne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Residents,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.