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 Egypt and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Johannesburg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum 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 Yusef Lateef to the rock 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Deakin,
The Cure,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Teasers,
Fad Gadget,
Talk Talk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fuzztones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marc Almond,
Radiohead,
Mission of Burma,
Zapp,
the Germs,
Bluetip,
AZ,
Steve Hackett,
The Martian,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Siglo XX,
Section 25,
Boz Scaggs,
Eric Copeland,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moleskins,
The Techniques,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marine Girls,
Television Personalities,
The Remains,
Mark Hollis,
Eve St. Jones,
Banda Bassotti,
Hot Snakes,
Loose Ends,
The Evens,
These Immortal Souls,
Kaleidoscope,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bootsy Collins,
Black Moon,
Suburban Knight,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Ken Boothe,
Althea and Donna,
Tommy Roe,
The Mummies,
D'Angelo,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Starr,
Stetsasonic,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.