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 Cambodia 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 United States of America to the electroclash 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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Circle Jerks,
Whodini,
Soft Machine,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skriet,
Altered Images,
JFA,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
This Heat,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sixth Finger,
Juan Atkins,
Maleditus Sound,
David Axelrod,
Colin Newman,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Chris Corsano,
The Mojo Men,
Warren Ellis,
Oneida,
Qualms,
Flipper,
Duran Duran,
AZ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Agent Orange,
Iggy Pop,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aswad,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alphaville,
Can,
DNA,
the Association,
Chrome,
Lower 48,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sound Behaviour,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sparks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hot Snakes,
Audionom,
Brick,
The Fugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Japan,
Ronan,
Moebius,
Eric Copeland,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.