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 Norway and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Busters to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Au Pairs,
Franke,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Flag,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Reed,
Tom Boy,
kango's stein massive,
Scientists,
The Names,
The Selecter,
Max Romeo,
Amazonics,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thompson Twins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
F. McDonald,
The J.B.'s,
The Raincoats,
China Crisis,
The Associates,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Matthew Bourne,
Kas Product,
Tommy Roe,
Kayak,
Minny Pops,
Sound Behaviour,
Jacques Brel,
The Pretty Things,
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scrapy,
Camberwell Now,
Donny Hathaway,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Sneak,
Jandek,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Freddie Wadling,
Reuben Wilson,
Flipper,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Loose Ends,
Lebanon Hanover,
New Age Steppers,
U.S. Maple,
Eve St. Jones,
Radiohead,
Banda Bassotti,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.