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 Kazakhstan and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 The Human League to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Stetsasonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Suicide,
Ludus,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arthur Verocai,
Tropical Tobacco,
This Heat,
Joyce Sims,
James White and The Blacks,
Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Heaven 17,
Scion,
Audionom,
Sugar Minott,
Japan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alphaville,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Aloha Tigers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Leonard Cohen,
Newcleus,
Morten Harket,
The Beau Brummels,
LL Cool J,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q and Not U,
Rufus Thomas,
10cc,
The Move,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fugazi,
Dawn Penn,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Donald Byrd,
Inner City,
Fela Kuti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter and Kerry,
Ossler,
Deadbeat,
Rod Modell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Bill Wells,
Laurel Aitken,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roy Ayers,
Pantaleimon,
Ronnie Foster,
Lalann,
Shuggie Otis,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.