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 Cape Verde and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Eurythmics to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
Lower 48,
Kool Moe Dee,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter & Gordon,
Sarah Menescal,
Beasts of Bourbon,
PIL,
Roxette,
The Durutti Column,
Model 500,
Sonic Youth,
Desert Stars,
Henry Cow,
Altered Images,
Clear Light,
The Sound,
Bluetip,
Theoretical Girls,
The Zeros,
The Mighty Diamonds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Danielle Patucci,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Juan Atkins,
Metal Thangz,
Grey Daturas,
Minutemen,
Maurizio,
The Count Five,
China Crisis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sister Nancy,
Warsaw,
Lalann,
Amon Düül II,
One Last Wish,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers,
Sight & Sound,
Scrapy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
Buzzcocks,
Section 25,
Slick Rick,
Q and Not U,
Lyres,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hoover,
Howard Jones,
Mark Hollis,
H. Thieme,
The Happenings,
Kevin Saunderson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.