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 Egypt and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Bad Manners to the funk 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '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 Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Minnie Riperton,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
Harpers Bizarre,
Soulsonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
Hasil Adkins,
the Soft Cell,
This Heat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scientists,
Slick Rick,
Connie Case,
Curtis Mayfield,
Excepter,
Jeff Lynne,
ABC,
the Normal,
Andrew Hill,
Unrelated Segments,
Warsaw,
The Smoke,
Bronski Beat,
R.M.O.,
Dual Sessions,
Interpol,
Colin Newman,
The Five Americans,
the Germs,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
The Barracudas,
Sight & Sound,
Little Man,
Janne Schatter,
Soft Cell,
Saccharine Trust,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Infiniti,
Yazoo,
The Associates,
Camberwell Now,
La Düsseldorf,
One Last Wish,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DJ Style,
Soft Machine,
Loose Ends,
Joyce Sims,
Pantaleimon,
Technova,
Dark Day,
T.S.O.L.,
the Fania All-Stars,
Babytalk,
The Fire Engines,
Popol Vuh,
Altered Images,
OOIOO,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.