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 South Sudan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar 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 Howard Jones to the jazz 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Nirvana,
Fugazi,
The Residents,
Lower 48,
Pagans,
Man Parrish,
Smog,
Severed Heads,
Soft Cell,
Ossler,
Mantronix,
Bobby Hutcherson,
La Düsseldorf,
The Moleskins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Searchers,
Drexciya,
Youth Brigade,
Oneida,
Joe Finger,
Q65,
The Cure,
Basic Channel,
The Five Americans,
Bronski Beat,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visage,
Sonic Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rekid,
Country Teasers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Interpol,
Traffic Nightmare,
L. Decosne,
Niagra,
Popol Vuh,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Human League,
Stereo Dub,
T.S.O.L.,
Wolf Eyes,
The Black Dice,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dead C,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Lynne,
John Cale,
Max Romeo,
Pole,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sixth Finger,
A Certain Ratio,
The Remains,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Main Source,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.