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 Portugal and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 The Happenings to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Reagan Youth,
Alphaville,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sugar Minott,
Radiohead,
Jacob Miller,
Panda Bear,
Trumans Water,
Eli Mardock,
Swans,
Crash Course in Science,
Janne Schatter,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Copeland,
Arab on Radar,
Urselle,
David Bowie,
New Age Steppers,
Khruangbin,
X-102,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Teasers,
The American Breed,
Essential Logic,
The Saints,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grey Daturas,
T. Rex,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joy Division,
Susan Cadogan,
Cameo,
Robert Hood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Moody Blues,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cheater Slicks,
The Leaves,
Visage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Rosa Yemen,
The Real Kids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Main Source,
Accadde A,
Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Silicon Teens,
Wire,
Howard Jones,
Letta Mbulu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.