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 Moldova 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Rhythm & Sound to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
The Raincoats,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heaven 17,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lightning Bolt,
The Detroit Cobras,
kango's stein massive,
Pussy Galore,
Clear Light,
Ice-T,
Buzzcocks,
Neil Young,
The Young Rascals,
Ornette Coleman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Associates,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Searchers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moebius,
Albert Ayler,
Barrington Levy,
Subhumans,
Gang of Four,
Joensuu 1685,
Matthew Halsall,
Terry Callier,
Altered Images,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
H. Thieme,
Leonard Cohen,
Nils Olav,
Scrapy,
Qualms,
Camberwell Now,
Marmalade,
La Düsseldorf,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
The Barracudas,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Pere Ubu,
John Lydon,
T. Rex,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Moss Icon,
10cc,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brand Nubian,
The Names,
Ten City,
Alison Limerick,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.