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 Denmark and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe 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 Mummies to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
JFA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neu!,
Dual Sessions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Byrd,
Audionom,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Alison Limerick,
Agitation Free,
Ludus,
Pagans,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispy Ambulance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Hood,
Pierre Henry,
Peter and Kerry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
ABC,
Dorothy Ashby,
EPMD,
Sex Pistols,
Reagan Youth,
Unwound,
Iggy Pop,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
AZ,
Josef K,
Alice Coltrane,
The Grass Roots,
The Offenders,
Sun City Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Marine Girls,
One Last Wish,
The Kinks,
The Star Department,
Anakelly,
U.S. Maple,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Adolescents,
Yusef Lateef,
Kenny Larkin,
Hashim,
Supertramp,
Howard Jones,
China Crisis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ossler,
Japan,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.