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 Malaysia and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet 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 The Leaves to the dance 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Althea and Donna,
The Saints,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mo-Dettes,
Radio Birdman,
Thompson Twins,
The Searchers,
Bobby Byrd,
The Associates,
Donald Byrd,
The Leaves,
Desert Stars,
Pulsallama,
Chris & Cosey,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rites of Spring,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anakelly,
The Smoke,
Erasure,
the Soft Cell,
Wolf Eyes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Boz Scaggs,
R.M.O.,
Ornette Coleman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Skatalites,
Radiohead,
Intrusion,
Arcadia,
Ohio Players,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
Barclay James Harvest,
Little Man,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Parry Music,
Von Mondo,
Connie Case,
Tim Buckley,
Aswad,
John Foxx,
Bang On A Can,
The Mummies,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.