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 Sri Lanka and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Pere Ubu to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker,
The Human League,
Kaleidoscope,
The Durutti Column,
Desert Stars,
The Saints,
The Fortunes,
Malaria!,
Oneida,
Franke,
Josef K,
John Foxx,
the Bar-Kays,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Modern Lovers,
Underground Resistance,
Ralphi Rosario,
Michelle Simonal,
The Evens,
David McCallum,
Rites of Spring,
Funkadelic,
Pylon,
Grauzone,
Zero Boys,
H. Thieme,
The Barracudas,
Nas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Freddie Wadling,
Schoolly D,
Delon & Dalcan,
KRS-One,
Barrington Levy,
The Happenings,
This Heat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Motions,
Average White Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Surgeon,
The Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
T.S.O.L.,
Ponytail,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Second Layer,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tears for Fears,
Bush Tetras,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rekid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Qualms,
The Fall,
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.