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 Algeria and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Derrick Morgan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
In Retrospect,
48th St. Collective,
Moss Icon,
Fear,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
Warren Ellis,
The Victims,
Jacques Brel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fad Gadget,
Mantronix,
Sparks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Oblivians,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sister Nancy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amazonics,
Swell Maps,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Clarke,
The Wake,
The Slits,
The Fuzztones,
Mission of Burma,
Donald Byrd,
Black Flag,
Adolescents,
Slave,
June of 44,
Camberwell Now,
Patti Smith,
Chris Corsano,
Scientists,
Max Romeo,
The Leaves,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Duran Duran,
Ronnie Foster,
Niagra,
Robert Wyatt,
Joey Negro,
Dennis Brown,
Wasted Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bauhaus,
JFA,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pagans,
the Human League,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.