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 Honduras and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sandy B to the techno 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Clarke,
MC5,
Loose Ends,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection,
Ponytail,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Derrick Morgan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Danielle Patucci,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moleskins,
Maurizio,
Wasted Youth,
The Searchers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Wyatt,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hasil Adkins,
Swans,
Porter Ricks,
The Divine Comedy,
John Coltrane,
Scan 7,
Funkadelic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Birthday Party,
Yellowson,
Sugar Minott,
10cc,
Thee Headcoats,
Jacob Miller,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fad Gadget,
Donald Byrd,
Franke,
Bad Manners,
48th St. Collective,
Scrapy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ituana,
Lucky Dragons,
D'Angelo,
The Fire Engines,
Main Source,
The Pop Group,
Godley & Creme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dead C,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker,
New Order,
Deepchord,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.