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 East Timor and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Dual Sessions to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Basic Channel,
Bill Near,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Count Five,
Laurel Aitken,
Charles Mingus,
the Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Patti Smith,
Marc Almond,
Yusef Lateef,
Shoche,
Jerry's Kids,
The Sound,
Ohio Players,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wings,
Spoonie Gee,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ultravox,
The New Christs,
Livin' Joy,
Drexciya,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wasted Youth,
David McCallum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Christie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Altered Images,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare,
Arthur Verocai,
Glenn Branca,
Q and Not U,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Godley & Creme,
Dark Day,
Danielle Patucci,
Sight & Sound,
Ituana,
Moby Grape,
Scientists,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Modern Lovers,
Fluxion,
Brand Nubian,
Alice Coltrane,
Technova,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fugs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Swans,
X-101,
Henry Cow,
Supertramp,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.