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 Rwanda and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Television Personalities,
Roxette,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tears for Fears,
The Moody Blues,
Skaos,
The Pretty Things,
Suburban Knight,
Bobby Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
Flash Fearless,
Nico,
The Searchers,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Order,
Rakim,
Man Parrish,
Eric Dolphy,
Mission of Burma,
Scientists,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Swans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The J.B.'s,
The Smoke,
Magazine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
A Certain Ratio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Organ,
Tres Demented,
Crash Course in Science,
Accadde A,
Audionom,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
LL Cool J,
The Doobie Brothers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Moleskins,
Bang On A Can,
Gabor Szabo,
Can,
Funky Four + One,
Thee Headcoats,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül II,
Hot Snakes,
EPMD,
Gang Starr,
Neu!,
Arthur Verocai,
Cal Tjader,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.