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 Jordan and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Amon Düül II to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick Morgan,
Chris Corsano,
The Gap Band,
Pole,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wire,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Index,
Darondo,
Arcadia,
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Second Layer,
The Mojo Men,
KRS-One,
Sun Ra,
The Knickerbockers,
Slave,
Stiv Bators,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Blossom Toes,
Black Bananas,
Byron Stingily,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dennis Brown,
Neil Young,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television Personalities,
JFA,
Bang On A Can,
Little Man,
Juan Atkins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ituana,
Todd Terry,
Ken Boothe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mandrill,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bill Wells,
Ice-T,
Nick Fraelich,
Al Stewart,
Visage,
Throbbing Gristle,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Brass Construction,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fear,
Quadrant,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Niagra,
Smog,
Brothers Johnson,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.