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 South Africa and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Spoonie Gee to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Bobby Byrd,
Fela Kuti,
The Move,
Scientists,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Wake,
Drexciya,
Pierre Henry,
Delta 5,
Zero Boys,
The Remains,
The Pretty Things,
Black Flag,
Frankie Knuckles,
John Coltrane,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Altered Images,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minutemen,
Chris Corsano,
Thee Headcoats,
PIL,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
Mary Jane Girls,
Loose Ends,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Modern Lovers,
Maleditus Sound,
Scratch Acid,
Little Man,
Franke,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Starr,
Roxette,
Todd Rundgren,
The Tremeloes,
Michelle Simonal,
Skarface,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Connie Case,
Arcadia,
Television Personalities,
The Seeds,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
L. Decosne,
Man Parrish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Blossom Toes,
Erasure,
F. McDonald,
Second Layer,
Joensuu 1685,
The Grass Roots,
Jacques Brel,
Quantec,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacob Miller,
Cecil Taylor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.