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 Monaco and from Houston.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
The Monochrome Set,
Wally Richardson,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronan,
The Alarm Clocks,
Talk Talk,
La Düsseldorf,
Altered Images,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DNA,
Technova,
The Offenders,
The Divine Comedy,
The Cure,
Bobby Byrd,
Tubeway Army,
Black Flag,
Section 25,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Buzzcocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Beau Brummels,
Donald Byrd,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang of Four,
Make Up,
A Certain Ratio,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Names,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Leonard Cohen,
Malaria!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Velvet Underground,
DJ Style,
Massinfluence,
Shuggie Otis,
Sarah Menescal,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cal Tjader,
Skriet,
China Crisis,
Godley & Creme,
Qualms,
Prince Buster,
Niagra,
Hardrive,
Jandek,
The Flesh Eaters,
Quadrant,
Pere Ubu,
Sight & Sound,
The Standells,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.