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 Lithuania and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Siglo XX to the electroclash 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
X-102,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soulsonic Force,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ten City,
Arab on Radar,
The Vogues,
Severed Heads,
Reuben Wilson,
Whodini,
The Smiths,
Warsaw,
Sun Ra,
Nas,
Ken Boothe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fatback Band,
Cymande,
Silicon Teens,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Coltrane,
Spandau Ballet,
Subhumans,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Raincoats,
H. Thieme,
Massinfluence,
Eve St. Jones,
MDC,
John Holt,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Doors,
Al Stewart,
the Sonics,
The Red Krayola,
Simply Red,
Absolute Body Control,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Groovy Waters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tom Boy,
The Residents,
Deepchord,
Technova,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lightning Bolt,
LL Cool J,
Rakim,
Tim Buckley,
Bob Dylan,
Bobby Womack,
The Durutti Column,
Josef K,
The Dirtbombs,
The Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
Fear,
Heaven 17,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.