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 Congo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Organ to the disco 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Fela Kuti,
Intrusion,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kaleidoscope,
Gong,
The Saints,
The Birthday Party,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cymande,
DNA,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
Grauzone,
Animal Collective,
Pere Ubu,
Tomorrow,
Piero Umiliani,
Kurtis Blow,
Massinfluence,
LL Cool J,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Arcadia,
John Lydon,
Faraquet,
The Standells,
Warsaw,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Inner City,
MDC,
Roxy Music,
Rod Modell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter & Gordon,
Shuggie Otis,
E-Dancer,
Average White Band,
Soft Machine,
Lungfish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Second Layer,
Surgeon,
The Searchers,
The Detroit Cobras,
UT,
Black Bananas,
ABBA,
Q65,
Deepchord,
Bluetip,
Negative Approach,
Icehouse,
Section 25,
Hardrive,
Jesper Dahlback,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Banda Bassotti,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.