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 Slovakia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Joe Finger to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis,
Hashim,
Easy Going,
Eric Dolphy,
Maleditus Sound,
The Moody Blues,
Ossler,
Oblivians,
Erasure,
Skriet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sonny Sharrock,
The J.B.'s,
Kerri Chandler,
The Leaves,
Hot Snakes,
Eric Copeland,
Surgeon,
Hoover,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultravox,
Rosa Yemen,
The Techniques,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cybotron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alphaville,
Jerry's Kids,
The Angels of Light,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Sherman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mission of Burma,
X-Ray Spex,
JFA,
Max Romeo,
The Blackbyrds,
CMW,
Camberwell Now,
Byron Stingily,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Prince Buster,
Alice Coltrane,
Infiniti,
Letta Mbulu,
Charles Mingus,
Unrelated Segments,
Brand Nubian,
The Red Krayola,
Juan Atkins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Crime,
the Sonics,
The American Breed,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.