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 New Zealand and from Lagos.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sarah Menescal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter and Kerry,
John Lydon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Golliwogs,
Minnie Riperton,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Durutti Column,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Section 25,
Angry Samoans,
the Bar-Kays,
Toni Rubio,
Gerry Rafferty,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kayak,
Television Personalities,
Boredoms,
Zapp,
R.M.O.,
Blancmange,
Negative Approach,
Mission of Burma,
Mo-Dettes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grey Daturas,
Ronan,
Darondo,
Matthew Halsall,
Monks,
Yaz,
Minny Pops,
U.S. Maple,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
The Gladiators,
Theoretical Girls,
Skarface,
Soul II Soul,
Moss Icon,
Neu!,
The Martian,
Sister Nancy,
Nirvana,
Accadde A,
Monolake,
Malaria!,
Inner City,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Mills,
The Monks,
Amon Düül,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.