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 Lithuania and from Sao Paulo.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tom Boy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ken Boothe,
Icehouse,
Livin' Joy,
Easy Going,
Das Ding,
the Association,
Sister Nancy,
The Techniques,
Flash Fearless,
Adolescents,
Glambeats Corp.,
Urselle,
Bauhaus,
Animal Collective,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yusef Lateef,
OOIOO,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tres Demented,
Quadrant,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Wyatt,
The Slits,
The Smiths,
Amon Düül II,
Section 25,
The Count Five,
Derrick May,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deepchord,
Visage,
The Residents,
The Busters,
D'Angelo,
MC5,
Lakeside,
Anakelly,
Jerry's Kids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Subhumans,
Toni Rubio,
Fluxion,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Masters at Work,
Tommy Roe,
Minor Threat,
Franke,
Japan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Smooth,
a-ha,
K-Klass,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.