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 Nauru and from New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar 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 Gichy Dan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Intrusion,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harmonia,
Circle Jerks,
Sun City Girls,
David Axelrod,
Scientists,
Von Mondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Half Japanese,
Trumans Water,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pylon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stereo Dub,
The Golliwogs,
The Divine Comedy,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Make Up,
Lou Reed,
Lou Christie,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Lynne,
Tubeway Army,
The Buckinghams,
Charles Mingus,
Liliput,
The Mojo Men,
Archie Shepp,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
48th St. Collective,
Skarface,
the Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
CMW,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slave,
Fear,
Surgeon,
The Sonics,
Alton Ellis,
Althea and Donna,
Excepter,
Eric Dolphy,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Sherman,
Warsaw,
PIL,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.