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 Maldives and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 The Black Dice to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T. Rex,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
The Victims,
Thompson Twins,
Throbbing Gristle,
Cecil Taylor,
Tubeway Army,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Liliput,
Sound Behaviour,
The Knickerbockers,
Ten City,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kayak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brand Nubian,
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Sherman,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sarah Menescal,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Kenny Larkin,
Smog,
Soul II Soul,
Camberwell Now,
Barbara Tucker,
Pulsallama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Excepter,
Quando Quango,
CMW,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yaz,
Spandau Ballet,
Wally Richardson,
Arcadia,
Dennis Brown,
Aaron Thompson,
Boredoms,
Rakim,
Technova,
Joensuu 1685,
U.S. Maple,
Parry Music,
The Busters,
Siglo XX,
Tommy Roe,
Unwound,
Inner City,
Black Bananas,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.