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 Haiti and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Cairo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Au Pairs,
Yellowson,
Infiniti,
Flash Fearless,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marmalade,
Bluetip,
Basic Channel,
Lucky Dragons,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Almond,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Black Dice,
AZ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Suburban Knight,
Derrick May,
Davy DMX,
Al Stewart,
Mars,
Porter Ricks,
Index,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Cowsills,
Inner City,
Audionom,
Lungfish,
Kaleidoscope,
Interpol,
Babytalk,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
PIL,
the Association,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minny Pops,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
One Last Wish,
Robert Görl,
Chrome,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Evens,
Country Teasers,
Technova,
Aswad,
Sugar Minott,
Delta 5,
Rakim,
Gang Starr,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Minnie Riperton,
The Leaves,
The Saints,
Roxette,
T.S.O.L.,
Brick,
Make Up,
Nik Kershaw,
U.S. Maple,
Reuben Wilson,
kango's stein massive,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.