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 Angola and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
Ken Boothe,
Hardrive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pussy Galore,
Yazoo,
AZ,
Outsiders,
Cal Tjader,
Josef K,
Yellowson,
The Saints,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nico,
John Foxx,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Maurizio,
Pierre Henry,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nirvana,
X-102,
Fad Gadget,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Banda Bassotti,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barbara Tucker,
The Moleskins,
Skarface,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The New Christs,
The Gap Band,
Scan 7,
Tears for Fears,
Scientists,
Magma,
Bobby Womack,
The Young Rascals,
Theoretical Girls,
Ronan,
Zapp,
Kerrie Biddell,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Vainqueur,
The Remains,
Neil Young,
Joensuu 1685,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
Soft Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Deakin,
Severed Heads,
K-Klass,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.