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 Costa Rica and from New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Black Sheep,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Dirtbombs,
Funkadelic,
Zapp,
Bush Tetras,
Ludus,
Albert Ayler,
Khruangbin,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Depeche Mode,
Crooked Eye,
Harpers Bizarre,
Q65,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Misunderstood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lakeside,
Theoretical Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
The Invisible,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arab on Radar,
Moebius,
Yazoo,
Newcleus,
Quando Quango,
Minnie Riperton,
Joe Finger,
The Buckinghams,
Faust,
Babytalk,
Glenn Branca,
Royal Trux,
Y Pants,
Mars,
Roxette,
Bauhaus,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dead C,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Motorama,
Amazonics,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.