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 Samoa and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chrome to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Electric Prunes,
Echospace,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Los Fastidios,
Nirvana,
Quando Quango,
Howard Jones,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Bar-Kays,
CMW,
Erasure,
Stiv Bators,
The Divine Comedy,
Dead Boys,
June Days,
The Durutti Column,
Urselle,
Johnny Osbourne,
Grauzone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Zapp,
The Toasters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fluxion,
Susan Cadogan,
Popol Vuh,
Ice-T,
Japan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Half Japanese,
Judy Mowatt,
Pylon,
Joe Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Liliput,
Gil Scott Heron,
Young Marble Giants,
Average White Band,
Robert Görl,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pole,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Coltrane,
Altered Images,
Delon & Dalcan,
H. Thieme,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cybotron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fugs,
Colin Newman,
Rotary Connection,
Dark Day,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Womack,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.