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 Senegal and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 Max Romeo to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Radiopuhelimet,
UT,
Symarip,
Minor Threat,
Peter & Gordon,
Erykah Badu,
Trumans Water,
Lalo Schifrin,
R.M.O.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
The American Breed,
Tommy Roe,
kango's stein massive,
Technova,
Goldenarms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Panda Bear,
Lalann,
Motorama,
A Certain Ratio,
Eli Mardock,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pylon,
Von Mondo,
Buzzcocks,
a-ha,
Rapeman,
These Immortal Souls,
The Move,
Eddi Front,
Minny Pops,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultimate Spinach,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rotary Connection,
Derrick Morgan,
Morten Harket,
Soft Machine,
Deakin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
cv313,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Skaos,
Radio Birdman,
Sparks,
Hot Snakes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Los Fastidios,
FM Einheit,
Tim Buckley,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camberwell Now,
Tomorrow,
Cameo,
The Motions,
MC5,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.