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 Bahrain and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delta 5 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Al Stewart,
KRS-One,
The Searchers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
MDC,
The Kinks,
R.M.O.,
Ohio Players,
Suburban Knight,
B.T. Express,
Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Real Kids,
Junior Murvin,
The Beau Brummels,
Amazonics,
Second Layer,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers,
Black Bananas,
Loose Ends,
Bob Dylan,
The Last Poets,
Yazoo,
Matthew Halsall,
Arthur Verocai,
Throbbing Gristle,
Barry Ungar,
Little Man,
Simply Red,
Pussy Galore,
Kerri Chandler,
the Slits,
Jandek,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Royal Trux,
Carl Craig,
Wire,
Infiniti,
Robert Wyatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Martian,
The Selecter,
The Knickerbockers,
Jawbox,
The Doobie Brothers,
Icehouse,
Qualms,
Blake Baxter,
Goldenarms,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.