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 Ireland and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Echospace to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scientists,
Alton Ellis,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Drexciya,
Rekid,
David Axelrod,
Bill Wells,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Loose Ends,
Main Source,
Eric Copeland,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Urselle,
Y Pants,
Newcleus,
Sam Rivers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Livin' Joy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Maleditus Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monochrome Set,
Banda Bassotti,
Monolake,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marc Almond,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Goldenarms,
Shuggie Otis,
Joe Smooth,
The Techniques,
Public Enemy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moebius,
Franke,
The Fugs,
a-ha,
Sarah Menescal,
Jeff Lynne,
The Real Kids,
Ossler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ralphi Rosario,
DJ Style,
The Standells,
Deepchord,
Radiohead,
The Count Five,
The Modern Lovers,
The Grass Roots,
Fad Gadget,
the Association,
The Mummies,
Flash Fearless,
Al Stewart,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.