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 Ghana and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Birthday Party,
Roxy Music,
Flipper,
Steve Hackett,
Zero Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swell Maps,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fad Gadget,
Mantronix,
Junior Murvin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Reuben Wilson,
Wire,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sonics,
The Gladiators,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hoover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Symarip,
Arab on Radar,
Crooked Eye,
The Real Kids,
Sugar Minott,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Model 500,
Ultravox,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tim Buckley,
The Leaves,
Johnny Osbourne,
Shuggie Otis,
Donald Byrd,
Excepter,
Cybotron,
Drive Like Jehu,
Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Modern Lovers,
Shoche,
Todd Terry,
Peter & Gordon,
Amon Düül,
World's Most,
Ken Boothe,
The Raincoats,
Pylon,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.