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 Afghanistan and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Henry Cow to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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,
Altered Images,
Ponytail,
New York Dolls,
Magazine,
The Last Poets,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Suburban Knight,
Unwound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
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The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Martian,
Heaven 17,
Joy Division,
Tommy Roe,
Country Teasers,
Godley & Creme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Brass Construction,
R.M.O.,
The Gladiators,
Camberwell Now,
The Invisible,
The Raincoats,
Amon Düül II,
Brand Nubian,
Swans,
Skarface,
Gang Starr,
Sun Ra,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tomorrow,
Lungfish,
Sandy B,
Agitation Free,
Make Up,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doors,
Man Parrish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Moon,
Blossom Toes,
The Smoke,
Lower 48,
Japan,
The Knickerbockers,
The Neon Judgement,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.