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 Belgium and from Tokyo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Liliput to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Piero Umiliani,
The Victims,
Rotary Connection,
the Normal,
The Remains,
Fad Gadget,
Easy Going,
Delta 5,
the Association,
Jawbox,
Kerri Chandler,
Faraquet,
Scion,
Guru Guru,
The Standells,
The Invisible,
Sister Nancy,
Donny Hathaway,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fall,
Accadde A,
Talk Talk,
Henry Cow,
Deakin,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Cell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Busters,
Leonard Cohen,
Blancmange,
Outsiders,
Eric B and Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Chrome,
Angry Samoans,
Aswad,
Glenn Branca,
Slave,
Bobby Womack,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
H. Thieme,
Wolf Eyes,
Joe Smooth,
Cymande,
Scan 7,
Bobby Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
T. Rex,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spoonie Gee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sight & Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Radio Birdman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Barracudas,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.