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 Portugal 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Aaron Thompson to the rock 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yusef Lateef,
Television Personalities,
La Düsseldorf,
AZ,
Soft Machine,
Brothers Johnson,
The Trojans,
Darondo,
Khruangbin,
Motorama,
Pet Shop Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
Absolute Body Control,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reagan Youth,
Spoonie Gee,
Magma,
Roxette,
Hashim,
Neu!,
DJ Sneak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Blackbyrds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bill Near,
Nils Olav,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eric Dolphy,
Soul II Soul,
a-ha,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Thompson Twins,
Malaria!,
Rod Modell,
Das Ding,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mad Mike,
Scrapy,
T.S.O.L.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Audionom,
Warren Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Normal,
Aural Exciters,
Subhumans,
John Cale,
Public Image Ltd.,
Duran Duran,
The Fall,
Hasil Adkins,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.