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 Jamaica and from Copenhagen.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jimmy McGriff to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Neil Young,
The Knickerbockers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Busters,
DNA,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Misunderstood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Judy Mowatt,
The Remains,
Ultimate Spinach,
T. Rex,
Scion,
Grauzone,
The Modern Lovers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ponytail,
The Motions,
Moebius,
Massinfluence,
Anakelly,
Michelle Simonal,
Livin' Joy,
Matthew Bourne,
James White and The Blacks,
Zapp,
The Offenders,
Zero Boys,
Glenn Branca,
Fela Kuti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Circle Jerks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Max Romeo,
Arthur Verocai,
Mission of Burma,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Star Department,
Donny Hathaway,
the Slits,
The Standells,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Gabor Szabo,
Lakeside,
Supertramp,
Todd Terry,
Skriet,
Siglo XX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wire,
Animal Collective,
Scientists,
Goldenarms,
Anthony Braxton,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.