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 Laos and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lou Christie to the disco 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
Angry Samoans,
Hardrive,
DJ Sneak,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
T.S.O.L.,
Ronan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Monks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Slick Rick,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
La Düsseldorf,
Cluster,
Josef K,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantytec,
Warsaw,
Peter & Gordon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Absolute Body Control,
Morten Harket,
Cymande,
Von Mondo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Archie Shepp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mandrill,
The Move,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chrome,
Pulsallama,
Ossler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
The Zeros,
Severed Heads,
MC5,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The United States of America,
Funkadelic,
Sound Behaviour,
Blake Baxter,
Procol Harum,
New Age Steppers,
Eve St. Jones,
kango's stein massive,
Mars,
Marvin Gaye,
June Days,
Masters at Work,
DNA,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.