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 Oman and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 Procol Harum to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boz Scaggs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Clear Light,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rosa Yemen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jawbox,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sugar Minott,
Stetsasonic,
Byron Stingily,
The Wake,
The Fugs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ohio Players,
Roy Ayers,
Chrome,
Crime,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jeff Mills,
The Mojo Men,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Erasure,
Ponytail,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed,
Easy Going,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ludus,
The Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
Grandmaster Flash,
Parry Music,
MC5,
The Slackers,
Camouflage,
The Fall,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Index,
Suicide,
Thee Headcoats,
Quando Quango,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donald Byrd,
Minny Pops,
China Crisis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.