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 Guinea and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro 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 Blackbyrds to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Heaven 17,
Blossom Toes,
Spoonie Gee,
the Sonics,
Dead Boys,
Crooked Eye,
Albert Ayler,
Colin Newman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Derrick Morgan,
Eddi Front,
Icehouse,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Grass Roots,
Idris Muhammad,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
L. Decosne,
Matthew Bourne,
Boz Scaggs,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Organ,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
Quantec,
Archie Shepp,
Marmalade,
Make Up,
Pylon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roger Hodgson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pussy Galore,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Youth Brigade,
Nick Fraelich,
Tubeway Army,
Soulsonic Force,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joe Smooth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skarface,
AZ,
La Düsseldorf,
The Birthday Party,
Brand Nubian,
The Wake,
Bad Manners,
The Residents,
Warren Ellis,
Oblivians,
ABC,
Bobby Womack,
Stereo Dub,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Seeds,
Barclay James Harvest,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.