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 Austria and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
Grey Daturas,
Peter and Kerry,
World's Most,
The Velvet Underground,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül II,
Average White Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultravox,
Symarip,
Blossom Toes,
The Mojo Men,
The Blackbyrds,
Yazoo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Parry Music,
Guru Guru,
Archie Shepp,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pagans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Moody Blues,
Amon Düül,
Television,
Boogie Down Productions,
Byron Stingily,
The Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Minor Threat,
Lakeside,
The Mummies,
The Star Department,
Crooked Eye,
Leonard Cohen,
Bauhaus,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monochrome Set,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Techniques,
Scion,
Von Mondo,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pretty Things,
Minnie Riperton,
Kerri Chandler,
Ice-T,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sandy B,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.