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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ohio Players to the techno 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Wake,
Pussy Galore,
Dark Day,
Spandau Ballet,
The Invisible,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Bauhaus,
Freddie Wadling,
Loose Ends,
Nation of Ulysses,
Warren Ellis,
Tomorrow,
The Seeds,
Niagra,
The Pop Group,
Stiv Bators,
The Moleskins,
Hashim,
D'Angelo,
Brothers Johnson,
Sarah Menescal,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
Massinfluence,
cv313,
Oneida,
Liliput,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barry Ungar,
John Holt,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Royal Trux,
Mantronix,
The Trojans,
Lakeside,
Camberwell Now,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Remains,
The American Breed,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Enemy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric Copeland,
China Crisis,
Slick Rick,
Mark Hollis,
Japan,
The Saints,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Erykah Badu,
Neu!,
Trumans Water,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cecil Taylor,
The Divine Comedy,
Nirvana,
Marc Almond,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.