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 Honduras and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Banda Bassotti to the grime 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Scratch Acid,
Dawn Penn,
Tim Buckley,
Siglo XX,
Crispian St. Peters,
H. Thieme,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kaleidoscope,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Reagan Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
Amazonics,
Mary Jane Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
The Monks,
The Knickerbockers,
Simply Red,
The Five Americans,
Warren Ellis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Colin Newman,
Chrome,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade,
The Music Machine,
a-ha,
The Fortunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Bootsy Collins,
The Count Five,
Alphaville,
Man Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
Fad Gadget,
Roxy Music,
Jacob Miller,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scan 7,
Bush Tetras,
Porter Ricks,
Swell Maps,
Andrew Hill,
Circle Jerks,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Half Japanese,
John Foxx,
Black Moon,
Country Teasers,
Alison Limerick,
Oneida,
the Slits,
Stetsasonic,
The Toasters,
Duran Duran,
This Heat,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.