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 Philippines and from Copenhagen.
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 Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Holt 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Adolescents,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Offenders,
Porter Ricks,
The Monochrome Set,
Au Pairs,
David McCallum,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
Todd Rundgren,
Young Marble Giants,
DJ Style,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dark Day,
Pussy Galore,
DNA,
48th St. Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Oblivians,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Smiths,
These Immortal Souls,
Surgeon,
Connie Case,
The Real Kids,
Hoover,
Rekid,
Warsaw,
Desert Stars,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cluster,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minor Threat,
Pylon,
Bill Near,
Tommy Roe,
Michelle Simonal,
Qualms,
The Evens,
Chrome,
Nico,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kurtis Blow,
Easy Going,
The Cowsills,
Soft Machine,
Joe Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gap Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fat Boys,
Silicon Teens,
Parry Music,
Whodini,
Derrick May,
Idris Muhammad,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.