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 Liechtenstein and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the rock 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronnie Foster,
Loose Ends,
Roxy Music,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fire Engines,
Fela Kuti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Massinfluence,
Glenn Branca,
The Kinks,
The Gladiators,
Public Enemy,
Monks,
ABBA,
Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
Gastr Del Sol,
Young Marble Giants,
Mars,
The Monks,
The Fuzztones,
Main Source,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
The Blues Magoos,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Smiths,
Kaleidoscope,
T. Rex,
Japan,
Cecil Taylor,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yellowson,
Boz Scaggs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Arcadia,
Accadde A,
David McCallum,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Danielle Patucci,
Barrington Levy,
The Velvet Underground,
Iggy Pop,
Janne Schatter,
Quantec,
The Happenings,
Fatback Band,
Black Sheep,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scion,
Nils Olav,
X-101,
Steve Hackett,
Bad Manners,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The J.B.'s,
Erykah Badu,
Thompson Twins,
Sparks,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.