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 Taiwan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 David Bowie to the funk 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cowsills,
Unwound,
The Evens,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
The Star Department,
Rufus Thomas,
Grauzone,
Godley & Creme,
Brand Nubian,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Dirtbombs,
UT,
Half Japanese,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flash Fearless,
Ken Boothe,
Brick,
Swell Maps,
a-ha,
Maleditus Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kayak,
Maurizio,
Connie Case,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultravox,
The Walker Brothers,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
Donald Byrd,
Johnny Clarke,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boz Scaggs,
Theoretical Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Shuggie Otis,
Buzzcocks,
DJ Style,
Lou Christie,
Robert Hood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kas Product,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Chrome,
Dennis Brown,
Bauhaus,
Monolake,
Grandmaster Flash,
Vladislav Delay,
Zapp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.