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 Ethiopia and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Swans to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang of Four,
Sound Behaviour,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Groovy Waters,
E-Dancer,
Animal Collective,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Soft Cell,
DNA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Lydon,
Ponytail,
The Seeds,
the Human League,
Infiniti,
The Young Rascals,
Man Parrish,
The Buckinghams,
Urselle,
Magma,
Ronan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Interpol,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dawn Penn,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wire,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Style,
The Smoke,
Babytalk,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Black Dice,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Siglo XX,
Suicide,
Basic Channel,
Nik Kershaw,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Scott Walker,
Mad Mike,
Charles Mingus,
Harry Pussy,
The Associates,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Golliwogs,
Hot Snakes,
The Fugs,
Electric Prunes,
Model 500,
Intrusion,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.