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 Latvia and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
The Slackers,
Thompson Twins,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
Al Stewart,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Matthew Bourne,
Jawbox,
Piero Umiliani,
Marine Girls,
Soft Machine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Au Pairs,
Suburban Knight,
Funkadelic,
The Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas,
Tears for Fears,
Camberwell Now,
The Toasters,
The Selecter,
AZ,
UT,
Ultimate Spinach,
Desert Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Subhumans,
Shoche,
Cybotron,
The Zeros,
Slave,
June of 44,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
The Birthday Party,
Drexciya,
Interpol,
Rod Modell,
Soft Cell,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bootsy Collins,
Zapp,
Cal Tjader,
Main Source,
The Standells,
Sam Rivers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül II,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marshall Jefferson,
Q and Not U,
Radiohead,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.