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 Cyprus and from Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the dance 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dawn Penn,
The Toasters,
Qualms,
Sonny Sharrock,
MC5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boredoms,
The Monochrome Set,
Charles Mingus,
Juan Atkins,
Grauzone,
Jacob Miller,
Main Source,
The Searchers,
Trumans Water,
Amon Düül,
Von Mondo,
June Days,
Das Ding,
Babytalk,
Albert Ayler,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Görl,
the Bar-Kays,
Can,
Minor Threat,
Mo-Dettes,
The Litter,
R.M.O.,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Technova,
The Skatalites,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Livin' Joy,
The Kinks,
Buzzcocks,
Niagra,
Marvin Gaye,
Arthur Verocai,
Organ,
Underground Resistance,
Infiniti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DNA,
Graham Central Station,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Fraelich,
EPMD,
Terry Callier,
Iggy Pop,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lakeside,
Henry Cow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.