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 Australia and from Jakarta.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Amazonics to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Josef K,
Outsiders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Unrelated Segments,
Underground Resistance,
Hardrive,
Ralphi Rosario,
Trumans Water,
Albert Ayler,
Ultra Naté,
The Vogues,
Minnie Riperton,
The Golliwogs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Junior Murvin,
Howard Jones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Max Romeo,
The Last Poets,
Gichy Dan,
Alton Ellis,
The Evens,
Heaven 17,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sonics,
Eurythmics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Parry Music,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fall,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brick,
John Lydon,
a-ha,
Liliput,
Gong,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Bananas,
Infiniti,
the Swans,
Scrapy,
David Bowie,
Bob Dylan,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Womack,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Aloha Tigers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
John Holt,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.