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 Comoros and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ice-T to the grime 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
MC5,
Cluster,
Unrelated Segments,
Godley & Creme,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare,
The Birthday Party,
The Count Five,
Masters at Work,
The Moody Blues,
Model 500,
Warsaw,
Swans,
Hasil Adkins,
Judy Mowatt,
Animal Collective,
This Heat,
Television Personalities,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rotary Connection,
Rakim,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sunsets and Hearts,
OOIOO,
Barry Ungar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Mummies,
the Bar-Kays,
Slick Rick,
Marc Almond,
Country Teasers,
Fad Gadget,
Minny Pops,
Skriet,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rites of Spring,
Negative Approach,
World's Most,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultimate Spinach,
Throbbing Gristle,
Duran Duran,
Amon Düül II,
Ohio Players,
JFA,
Talk Talk,
Gang Green,
Pantaleimon,
Hot Snakes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Associates,
Section 25,
Ralphi Rosario,
kango's stein massive,
Letta Mbulu,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.