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 Senegal and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 Chris Corsano to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Stockholm Monsters,
Swans,
Schoolly D,
Guru Guru,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deadbeat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Howard Jones,
The Happenings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fluxion,
The Mummies,
Model 500,
The Birthday Party,
Agent Orange,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reuben Wilson,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Flipper,
The Move,
Eric Dolphy,
The Seeds,
Thee Headcoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
A Certain Ratio,
Altered Images,
Maleditus Sound,
The Red Krayola,
Tommy Roe,
F. McDonald,
Brothers Johnson,
John Foxx,
The Pop Group,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Donny Hathaway,
E-Dancer,
The Walker Brothers,
Brass Construction,
Harry Pussy,
Adolescents,
The Modern Lovers,
Kerri Chandler,
Eli Mardock,
Black Flag,
The Standells,
In Retrospect,
Janne Schatter,
Qualms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nik Kershaw,
Los Fastidios,
The Invisible,
David McCallum,
Delta 5,
The Pretty Things,
Moebius,
Scion,
The Doors,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.