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 Zambia and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Liliput to the jazz 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispy Ambulance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
La Düsseldorf,
Scratch Acid,
Sight & Sound,
Don Cherry,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scion,
Eve St. Jones,
Jerry's Kids,
Procol Harum,
Ornette Coleman,
Colin Newman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Symarip,
Rotary Connection,
DJ Sneak,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ultravox,
Janne Schatter,
Stetsasonic,
Inner City,
Mo-Dettes,
Pantaleimon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
The Fugs,
Alison Limerick,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Icehouse,
Los Fastidios,
MDC,
Stiv Bators,
Al Stewart,
The Stooges,
Desert Stars,
Quando Quango,
Sparks,
The Star Department,
The Move,
ABBA,
R.M.O.,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bizarre Inc.,
Guru Guru,
Dual Sessions,
Neu!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Bar-Kays,
Animal Collective,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sam Rivers,
Graham Central Station,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Basic Channel,
Q and Not U,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.