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 Zambia and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Smoke to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
the Slits,
Ituana,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Pop Group,
Agent Orange,
Donald Byrd,
Vainqueur,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül,
Roxette,
Nas,
Arcadia,
Adolescents,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultra Naté,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gories,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mummies,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DNA,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minutemen,
Morten Harket,
World's Most,
Nick Fraelich,
Aural Exciters,
Metal Thangz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tommy Roe,
Carl Craig,
Nico,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Duran Duran,
In Retrospect,
Chris & Cosey,
T.S.O.L.,
Anakelly,
Index,
Lou Christie,
Dead Boys,
Funky Four + One,
The Real Kids,
Soul II Soul,
The Last Poets,
Hoover,
U.S. Maple,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Dawn Penn,
Archie Shepp,
Girls At Our Best!,
Section 25,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Trojans,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.