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 Nauru and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rufus Thomas to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
The Evens,
The Raincoats,
Hoover,
Hashim,
Faraquet,
Joyce Sims,
Rod Modell,
The Gladiators,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cybotron,
Brothers Johnson,
Albert Ayler,
DNA,
The Stooges,
Magma,
The Doobie Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
Lakeside,
Terry Callier,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stockholm Monsters,
E-Dancer,
Piero Umiliani,
New Order,
Adolescents,
The Modern Lovers,
Trumans Water,
Rosa Yemen,
John Foxx,
Sam Rivers,
Lucky Dragons,
Sixth Finger,
Agitation Free,
The Slackers,
Metal Thangz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Curtis Mayfield,
Susan Cadogan,
Joensuu 1685,
Cecil Taylor,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erykah Badu,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Amon Düül II,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ponytail,
Mo-Dettes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Arcadia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cure,
Newcleus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fatback Band,
Dennis Brown,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.