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 the UAE and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Zapp to the disco 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Yazoo,
Hoover,
Joe Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Althea and Donna,
The Dead C,
Bush Tetras,
the Normal,
the Sonics,
Bob Dylan,
China Crisis,
Accadde A,
The United States of America,
Jeru the Damaja,
Monolake,
Marvin Gaye,
Porter Ricks,
Bluetip,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Moody Blues,
Con Funk Shun,
New Order,
Eric Dolphy,
Wings,
Jerry's Kids,
The Litter,
Nico,
Funkadelic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fluxion,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
Juan Atkins,
Bauhaus,
Grauzone,
Yellowson,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Names,
Terry Callier,
The Busters,
Japan,
Sun Ra,
Unwound,
The Raincoats,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Suburban Knight,
the Slits,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Bananas,
Jandek,
Albert Ayler,
Nils Olav,
John Holt,
The Skatalites,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.