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 Poland and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Danielle Patucci to the electroclash 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
10cc,
Echospace,
Robert Görl,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Standells,
Vainqueur,
JFA,
Derrick Morgan,
Dawn Penn,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Association,
James White and The Blacks,
John Cale,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rekid,
Archie Shepp,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Erykah Badu,
Underground Resistance,
K-Klass,
Blancmange,
Barbara Tucker,
Tim Buckley,
The Moleskins,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blues Magoos,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Slackers,
Fad Gadget,
Television Personalities,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
CMW,
Fatback Band,
cv313,
Lakeside,
Talk Talk,
The Tremeloes,
Slave,
Howard Jones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mantronix,
Todd Terry,
Grauzone,
Buzzcocks,
The Saints,
Desert Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Moody Blues,
Q65,
Brick,
Yaz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Loose Ends,
ABC,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.