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 Malaysia and from Woodstock.
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 Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 John Cale to the techno 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
The Blackbyrds,
Radiopuhelimet,
Negative Approach,
Masters at Work,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Panda Bear,
Davy DMX,
B.T. Express,
Sarah Menescal,
Darondo,
Silicon Teens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Patti Smith,
Nik Kershaw,
R.M.O.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Trojans,
John Cale,
Bluetip,
Rekid,
Vladislav Delay,
Reuben Wilson,
Ornette Coleman,
Icehouse,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
David Axelrod,
Sällskapet,
Iggy Pop,
Wolf Eyes,
Avey Tare,
Excepter,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Hot Snakes,
Ossler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eric Dolphy,
Lakeside,
The Grass Roots,
Groovy Waters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Normal,
Yazoo,
Sixth Finger,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Skatalites,
The Modern Lovers,
Newcleus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vainqueur,
Gang of Four,
Oneida,
Aaron Thompson,
Sugar Minott,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Lynne,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.