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 Palau and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Bobby Womack 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Eden Ahbez,
UT,
Gang Green,
John Cale,
Unwound,
The Cramps,
10cc,
Ponytail,
Bluetip,
David McCallum,
The Dead C,
Symarip,
Howard Jones,
Country Teasers,
Erykah Badu,
Graham Central Station,
Lindisfarne,
Lightning Bolt,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
Prince Buster,
Dennis Brown,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
China Crisis,
Cybotron,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
Joy Division,
Ossler,
Can,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mandrill,
Minny Pops,
Soft Cell,
Minutemen,
X-Ray Spex,
The Modern Lovers,
Sixth Finger,
Easy Going,
Arab on Radar,
Q and Not U,
Minnie Riperton,
Isaac Hayes,
Juan Atkins,
Marine Girls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fela Kuti,
The Pop Group,
Popol Vuh,
The Human League,
The Monks,
Dark Day,
Spoonie Gee,
Swans,
Kas Product,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.