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 Kosovo and from London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Minor Threat,
Newcleus,
Andrew Hill,
The Smiths,
Oneida,
Absolute Body Control,
Excepter,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pantytec,
Infiniti,
Tim Buckley,
Desert Stars,
Gong,
Eric Dolphy,
Shuggie Otis,
F. McDonald,
Schoolly D,
Panda Bear,
James White and The Blacks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Technova,
Tommy Roe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pantaleimon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Janne Schatter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mandrill,
Kenny Larkin,
Nico,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Susan Cadogan,
Brand Nubian,
Massinfluence,
Mr. Review,
David Bowie,
Crime,
Los Fastidios,
Sparks,
Pylon,
Boredoms,
Niagra,
T. Rex,
In Retrospect,
The Slits,
Moebius,
Lucky Dragons,
World's Most,
The Associates,
John Foxx,
The United States of America,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.