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 Indonesia and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Duran Duran to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mission of Burma,
Patti Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Groovy Waters,
The Young Rascals,
Andrew Hill,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ronan,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Moon,
Soft Machine,
Y Pants,
Quadrant,
Cheater Slicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dawn Penn,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Velvet Underground,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bob Dylan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Japan,
New Age Steppers,
Sällskapet,
The Sonics,
Main Source,
The Busters,
Rosa Yemen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
Black Bananas,
Marmalade,
David McCallum,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Finger,
Anakelly,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Marc Almond,
Sonic Youth,
Deepchord,
Vladislav Delay,
Roxette,
Judy Mowatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonny Sharrock,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aural Exciters,
Bauhaus,
Underground Resistance,
Wasted Youth,
The Buckinghams,
Mars,
MC5,
The Gladiators,
Stereo Dub,
Neil Young,
Pussy Galore,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.