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 Syria and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Pierre Henry to the techno 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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Suburban Knight,
Audionom,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Curtis Mayfield,
Newcleus,
Dennis Brown,
Smog,
Hardrive,
New Order,
The Smoke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Depeche Mode,
Faraquet,
Cymande,
Mantronix,
The Raincoats,
Lou Christie,
Banda Bassotti,
ABBA,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Green,
The Moleskins,
Althea and Donna,
The Doors,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camouflage,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
Sällskapet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Modern Lovers,
Skaos,
Fad Gadget,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ronan,
Prince Buster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Bananas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Outsiders,
Skarface,
Angry Samoans,
Procol Harum,
Joyce Sims,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Sherman,
Neu!,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
Donald Byrd,
Qualms,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Dolphy,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.