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 Somalia and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lyres to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Spoonie Gee,
U.S. Maple,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Last Poets,
Brand Nubian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Black Dice,
Kas Product,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Bananas,
Make Up,
The Trojans,
The Misunderstood,
Yaz,
Banda Bassotti,
Camberwell Now,
Nils Olav,
Ponytail,
Prince Buster,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deadbeat,
The Grass Roots,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
FM Einheit,
Country Teasers,
The Pretty Things,
The Moleskins,
Alton Ellis,
Swans,
Can,
Lungfish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soulsonic Force,
Jacob Miller,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mo-Dettes,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Searchers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minor Threat,
Dorothy Ashby,
Blake Baxter,
Ornette Coleman,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
X-Ray Spex,
The Blackbyrds,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Busters,
David Bowie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joy Division,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.