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 Yemen and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Godley & Creme to the techno 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Bootsy Collins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cameo,
Rhythm & Sound,
CMW,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Sheep,
DJ Style,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quando Quango,
Mr. Review,
Skarface,
Sparks,
The American Breed,
Clear Light,
Thompson Twins,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Scrapy,
The Kinks,
The Black Dice,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rotary Connection,
Eden Ahbez,
Thee Headcoats,
The Modern Lovers,
the Slits,
D'Angelo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
Negative Approach,
Lungfish,
These Immortal Souls,
The Raincoats,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Slackers,
Magma,
Minor Threat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joe Smooth,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
Jandek,
T.S.O.L.,
The Alarm Clocks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gories,
The Sonics,
Schoolly D,
The Names,
Lindisfarne,
Sight & Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
The Selecter,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.