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 Greece and from Delhi.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Knickerbockers to the rap 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
John Coltrane,
Absolute Body Control,
David McCallum,
Slick Rick,
Marc Almond,
Talk Talk,
Joey Negro,
Roger Hodgson,
Yusef Lateef,
Babytalk,
Eurythmics,
CMW,
The J.B.'s,
Sound Behaviour,
China Crisis,
Sandy B,
Lou Christie,
Infiniti,
The Fall,
Monks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joy Division,
Duran Duran,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-102,
Altered Images,
Desert Stars,
The Martian,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alton Ellis,
Henry Cow,
Eric Copeland,
Dawn Penn,
Charles Mingus,
Harmonia,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Move,
Pylon,
Robert Görl,
Sparks,
Soul II Soul,
Flipper,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Terry,
Derrick May,
Wally Richardson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pussy Galore,
Zapp,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Blues Magoos,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bob Dylan,
Barrington Levy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Unrelated Segments,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.