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 Oman and from New York.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gabor Szabo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
The Dirtbombs,
Amon Düül II,
Grey Daturas,
The Durutti Column,
Rites of Spring,
Bobby Womack,
The Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter and Kerry,
Skarface,
Dual Sessions,
The Black Dice,
Pole,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oneida,
Moss Icon,
The Gap Band,
Sister Nancy,
Mars,
Crooked Eye,
Piero Umiliani,
Bauhaus,
UT,
48th St. Collective,
LL Cool J,
Marine Girls,
Rekid,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultra Naté,
Crime,
Erasure,
Skaos,
Panda Bear,
Harmonia,
Janne Schatter,
Nick Fraelich,
Roxy Music,
Trumans Water,
Marmalade,
Lakeside,
Khruangbin,
The Divine Comedy,
The Tremeloes,
Procol Harum,
Niagra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Japan,
Parry Music,
Junior Murvin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smoke,
Connie Case,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
Swans,
The Mojo Men,
X-101,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.