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 Spain and from Shanghai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Busters to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DJ Style,
John Cale,
The Index,
Sun Ra,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
cv313,
The Pop Group,
Little Man,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Con Funk Shun,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Sonics,
Sun City Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Halsall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dead C,
The Last Poets,
Byron Stingily,
Barry Ungar,
Joy Division,
Banda Bassotti,
Inner City,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Christie,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eden Ahbez,
The Dirtbombs,
Reagan Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Unwound,
Livin' Joy,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Human League,
Scion,
Adolescents,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Johnny Clarke,
Crash Course in Science,
Aloha Tigers,
Slick Rick,
the Germs,
Masters at Work,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.