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 Chile and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Mighty Diamonds to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Germs,
T. Rex,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-Ray Spex,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Golliwogs,
Eli Mardock,
Frankie Knuckles,
La Düsseldorf,
Chrome,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
OOIOO,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Inner City,
Spoonie Gee,
Marine Girls,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
T.S.O.L.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
E-Dancer,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Zero Boys,
the Association,
Hot Snakes,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Matthew Halsall,
Pantytec,
Sandy B,
Stiv Bators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Count Five,
Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Big Daddy Kane,
Simply Red,
The Leaves,
Blancmange,
Amon Düül,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe,
Dave Gahan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
Soulsonic Force,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Stooges,
Blake Baxter,
The Techniques,
The Star Department,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.