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 Oman and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Roger Hodgson to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pet Shop Boys,
Half Japanese,
Roger Hodgson,
Quadrant,
T. Rex,
Black Bananas,
Depeche Mode,
Hardrive,
Mad Mike,
Prince Buster,
Mars,
Motorama,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vladislav Delay,
Barry Ungar,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eddi Front,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
The Velvet Underground,
Lower 48,
The Sonics,
Symarip,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Foxx,
A Certain Ratio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ossler,
Warsaw,
Popol Vuh,
Youth Brigade,
Joe Smooth,
Von Mondo,
The Fortunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Buzzcocks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Stetsasonic,
Fear,
Mark Hollis,
Funky Four + One,
Pierre Henry,
U.S. Maple,
The Slackers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Delta 5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Clear Light,
Alton Ellis,
Camouflage,
The Kinks,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Knickerbockers,
Ornette Coleman,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.