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 Italy and from Stockholm.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Leaves to the rap 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Fatback Band,
The Happenings,
Pere Ubu,
Outsiders,
Cecil Taylor,
Crispy Ambulance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stiv Bators,
Absolute Body Control,
Alphaville,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Human League,
Thompson Twins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wings,
Reagan Youth,
Erasure,
Zapp,
Rod Modell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Quantec,
The Music Machine,
Theoretical Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Marcia Griffiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Boogie Down Productions,
Quadrant,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Young Marble Giants,
Barclay James Harvest,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
MDC,
The Barracudas,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Womack,
Don Cherry,
The Tremeloes,
Eve St. Jones,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Althea and Donna,
The Fall,
Toni Rubio,
Model 500,
Excepter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yellowson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
Crooked Eye,
Freddie Wadling,
Faraquet,
Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Half Japanese,
Roxy Music,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.