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 Jamaica and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stereo Dub to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Section 25,
Derrick May,
Television,
Magma,
Iggy Pop,
Nik Kershaw,
Todd Terry,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Holt,
Neil Young,
Panda Bear,
Charles Mingus,
Chrome,
Piero Umiliani,
Siglo XX,
The Cure,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kas Product,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mandrill,
Ten City,
The Slits,
Silicon Teens,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aural Exciters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
June of 44,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harpers Bizarre,
Newcleus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Negative Approach,
PIL,
The United States of America,
The Dave Clark Five,
Banda Bassotti,
Erasure,
Barclay James Harvest,
These Immortal Souls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pantytec,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bill Wells,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Motions,
Albert Ayler,
The Black Dice,
Babytalk,
Gabor Szabo,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
Oblivians,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
ABC,
Kaleidoscope,
Ronnie Foster,
Make Up,
Cameo,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.