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 Belgium 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Soulsonic Force to the grunge 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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rekid,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Franke,
Q and Not U,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Josef K,
Quantec,
New Order,
Robert Hood,
Dark Day,
Iggy Pop,
Nas,
Johnny Clarke,
New Age Steppers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lyres,
Reuben Wilson,
Sparks,
Boz Scaggs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Easy Going,
Jacques Brel,
Joey Negro,
the Human League,
JFA,
The Offenders,
DJ Sneak,
Cameo,
MC5,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Byron Stingily,
Pole,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Busters,
The New Christs,
Qualms,
Bang On A Can,
Eric Copeland,
Amon Düül,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fat Boys,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
B.T. Express,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Dolphy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Excepter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neu!,
Lou Christie,
Kerri Chandler,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.