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 Germany and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Y Pants to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Theoretical Girls,
Whodini,
Connie Case,
Barbara Tucker,
The Beau Brummels,
Main Source,
Y Pants,
June of 44,
Thee Headcoats,
The Durutti Column,
The Happenings,
Television Personalities,
Public Image Ltd.,
Silicon Teens,
Lyres,
Pierre Henry,
Country Teasers,
Cameo,
Hoover,
Carl Craig,
The Cramps,
Unwound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Funkadelic,
The Birthday Party,
Average White Band,
Q and Not U,
Ice-T,
Arab on Radar,
In Retrospect,
Donny Hathaway,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Kinks,
Maurizio,
KRS-One,
The Mojo Men,
The Saints,
Cymande,
Ituana,
Fugazi,
Mark Hollis,
Rosa Yemen,
Sarah Menescal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dark Day,
The Human League,
The Searchers,
Faust,
Ornette Coleman,
The Offenders,
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lakeside,
a-ha,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
Second Layer,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Dead C,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.