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 Brazil and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Joe Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Dead Boys,
Ice-T,
Mr. Review,
Kenny Larkin,
Ornette Coleman,
LL Cool J,
Fatback Band,
Joy Division,
Inner City,
Zero Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
CMW,
Supertramp,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Foxx,
Girls At Our Best!,
KRS-One,
Curtis Mayfield,
Parry Music,
Metal Thangz,
10cc,
Bluetip,
The Monochrome Set,
Vladislav Delay,
The New Christs,
Main Source,
Judy Mowatt,
Archie Shepp,
James White and The Blacks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Black Dice,
Young Marble Giants,
OOIOO,
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Index,
Brothers Johnson,
Drexciya,
The Zeros,
Eve St. Jones,
The Human League,
Von Mondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Fear,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Tears for Fears,
Cymande,
La Düsseldorf,
Crooked Eye,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Doors,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.