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 Mongolia and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Offenders to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Busters,
Marcia Griffiths,
Flipper,
Hashim,
the Bar-Kays,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Last Poets,
the Normal,
The Red Krayola,
Sarah Menescal,
Tomorrow,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Bananas,
Essential Logic,
Cymande,
Lou Christie,
Jacob Miller,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roy Ayers,
The Neon Judgement,
The Skatalites,
Altered Images,
Lower 48,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Detroit Cobras,
Erasure,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marc Almond,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crime,
B.T. Express,
Tubeway Army,
the Human League,
D'Angelo,
Eve St. Jones,
Lungfish,
Joe Finger,
Todd Terry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eden Ahbez,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Doors,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Letta Mbulu,
John Holt,
La Düsseldorf,
PIL,
Deakin,
Radiohead,
Harpers Bizarre,
Chrome,
Simply Red,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.