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 Tuvalu and from Paris.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Moebius,
Supertramp,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers,
Unrelated Segments,
a-ha,
Erykah Badu,
Heaven 17,
Section 25,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
H. Thieme,
Ohio Players,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlback,
Derrick May,
Metal Thangz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Visage,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mr. Review,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
This Heat,
Television Personalities,
Brand Nubian,
Dawn Penn,
Jeff Lynne,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Aural Exciters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Altered Images,
Unwound,
Hardrive,
The Remains,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marmalade,
David Axelrod,
Gichy Dan,
Symarip,
Ice-T,
Infiniti,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Move,
Nas,
Mandrill,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cecil Taylor,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
La Düsseldorf,
KRS-One,
Judy Mowatt,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.