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 Germany and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Portland.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Arcadia to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Fatback Band,
Black Pus,
Cheater Slicks,
The Cure,
Boz Scaggs,
Underground Resistance,
Arcadia,
DJ Style,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Rekid,
Crispy Ambulance,
Tears for Fears,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
MC5,
Japan,
Unrelated Segments,
Drive Like Jehu,
Robert Görl,
Kerri Chandler,
The Barracudas,
CMW,
Johnny Clarke,
The Wake,
Boredoms,
JFA,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
The Toasters,
Duran Duran,
Aloha Tigers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Parry Music,
Marvin Gaye,
John Coltrane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Flag,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rites of Spring,
Barry Ungar,
Brick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kenny Larkin,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
Moss Icon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scrapy,
Babytalk,
the Association,
Guru Guru,
the Slits,
MDC,
Alice Coltrane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.