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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Marcia Griffiths to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Malaria!,
Model 500,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Gang Dance,
Quando Quango,
Royal Trux,
Porter Ricks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ituana,
DJ Style,
The Skatalites,
ABC,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David McCallum,
Basic Channel,
Ultra Naté,
The Real Kids,
Parry Music,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Skaos,
Talk Talk,
Ludus,
Bronski Beat,
Alice Coltrane,
The Smoke,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Excepter,
Ultravox,
Blossom Toes,
The Fire Engines,
Maurizio,
Banda Bassotti,
Radiohead,
The United States of America,
Monks,
Altered Images,
the Sonics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yazoo,
Warren Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
Livin' Joy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fatback Band,
Amon Düül II,
World's Most,
Sugar Minott,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacob Miller,
The Beau Brummels,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed,
The Count Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Soft Machine,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.