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 Iceland and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Rapeman to the electroclash 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MDC,
Audionom,
The Mojo Men,
Pierre Henry,
The Remains,
The Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Young Rascals,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bauhaus,
Soft Machine,
DJ Style,
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
Gabor Szabo,
Dead Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Arab on Radar,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Moss Icon,
Alphaville,
Talk Talk,
The Leaves,
Intrusion,
Urselle,
Prince Buster,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronnie Foster,
Jawbox,
The Searchers,
Marmalade,
Pagans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Piero Umiliani,
Graham Central Station,
New Age Steppers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ornette Coleman,
Pussy Galore,
Duran Duran,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scrapy,
Morten Harket,
cv313,
X-Ray Spex,
Maurizio,
Skaos,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fela Kuti,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.