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 Uruguay and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Guru Guru to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
The Evens,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Brick,
Rakim,
Derrick May,
Cal Tjader,
Lee Hazlewood,
Intrusion,
Sarah Menescal,
The Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nils Olav,
The Dead C,
Davy DMX,
Little Man,
David Axelrod,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Arcadia,
Scan 7,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kayak,
Letta Mbulu,
Adolescents,
Nik Kershaw,
Boredoms,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Smiths,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Vogues,
Echospace,
The Trojans,
Bad Manners,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tubeway Army,
Harmonia,
Fatback Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eddi Front,
Pantaleimon,
In Retrospect,
Easy Going,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Dawn Penn,
Severed Heads,
Mandrill,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Accadde A,
the Swans,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stiv Bators,
Juan Atkins,
Goldenarms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.