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 Mali and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Q65 to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Mandrill,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
Althea and Donna,
Albert Ayler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jeru the Damaja,
Shuggie Otis,
Zapp,
the Association,
Sun City Girls,
Gong,
Toni Rubio,
Pere Ubu,
10cc,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ice-T,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Josef K,
Sun Ra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tubeway Army,
Scion,
The Cure,
Moss Icon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lucky Dragons,
Todd Terry,
The Fugs,
Cybotron,
Cheater Slicks,
Pulsallama,
EPMD,
Bill Wells,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
ABC,
Morten Harket,
In Retrospect,
Ludus,
Essential Logic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eli Mardock,
Alphaville,
The Mummies,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare,
Soft Cell,
D'Angelo,
Nick Fraelich,
Technova,
Wire,
UT,
Todd Rundgren,
Altered Images,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.