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 Switzerland and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Fortunes to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Michelle Simonal,
Absolute Body Control,
CMW,
Animal Collective,
Toni Rubio,
Television Personalities,
The Tremeloes,
Excepter,
Vainqueur,
Unwound,
Nico,
The Alarm Clocks,
Deepchord,
Todd Terry,
Heaven 17,
The Litter,
Kayak,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Chris Corsano,
OOIOO,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Womack,
Stiv Bators,
Model 500,
One Last Wish,
Throbbing Gristle,
Masters at Work,
Terrestrial Tones,
China Crisis,
Bluetip,
Marmalade,
Soft Cell,
Amon Düül,
Banda Bassotti,
Boogie Down Productions,
Second Layer,
Jacques Brel,
Sam Rivers,
Crime,
Infiniti,
Danielle Patucci,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ohio Players,
Grandmaster Flash,
Y Pants,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moebius,
Hardrive,
Ralphi Rosario,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mars,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Stooges,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
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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.