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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Cale to the grime 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
The J.B.'s,
Erykah Badu,
Kas Product,
Pere Ubu,
New York Dolls,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Barracudas,
MDC,
Bush Tetras,
Lalann,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang of Four,
Minny Pops,
Gong,
The Associates,
Japan,
Public Image Ltd.,
48th St. Collective,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
Adolescents,
Judy Mowatt,
the Slits,
Curtis Mayfield,
Parry Music,
MC5,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Angels of Light,
Television Personalities,
Hoover,
Andrew Hill,
Simply Red,
The Litter,
Joyce Sims,
Lindisfarne,
Scientists,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jandek,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The United States of America,
cv313,
Graham Central Station,
Fela Kuti,
The Moody Blues,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Von Mondo,
Sex Pistols,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nirvana,
Janne Schatter,
X-102,
A Certain Ratio,
Kool Moe Dee,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Lynne,
Eddi Front,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dark Day,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Grass Roots,
Zero Boys,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.