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 Bulgaria and from Johannesburg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Television Personalities to the dance 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Funkadelic,
Zero Boys,
Subhumans,
Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Steve Hackett,
Andrew Hill,
Animal Collective,
Das Ding,
Ultravox,
Yaz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Happenings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Cowsills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobby Womack,
Groovy Waters,
Jacques Brel,
Marc Almond,
June Days,
The Busters,
JFA,
Circle Jerks,
The Standells,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Maleditus Sound,
The Birthday Party,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bang On A Can,
Skaos,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Blackbyrds,
This Heat,
Mars,
Marmalade,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kaleidoscope,
Albert Ayler,
Gang of Four,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Swans,
The Durutti Column,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Morten Harket,
Mission of Burma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Monks,
Black Pus,
David Axelrod,
Cymande,
DJ Sneak,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.