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 Turkey and from Lille.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin 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 Sister Nancy to the disco 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
The New Christs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Can,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bizarre Inc.,
Amon Düül II,
Depeche Mode,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sixth Finger,
Easy Going,
UT,
The Last Poets,
Ludus,
Japan,
Cameo,
ABBA,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Associates,
The Blackbyrds,
Patti Smith,
Harmonia,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barbara Tucker,
Electric Prunes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Los Fastidios,
Young Marble Giants,
Crime,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Y Pants,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rotary Connection,
Wasted Youth,
Fatback Band,
The Music Machine,
Hoover,
Kayak,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Basic Channel,
Minny Pops,
Brand Nubian,
Grauzone,
Amon Düül,
Con Funk Shun,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Second Layer,
Silicon Teens,
Maleditus Sound,
Minnie Riperton,
The Stooges,
Zapp,
Hasil Adkins,
Don Cherry,
Skaos,
The Remains,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.