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 Comoros and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Khruangbin to the dance 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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Echospace,
Ohio Players,
The Zeros,
The Walker Brothers,
EPMD,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
The Real Kids,
Jacob Miller,
the Germs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cure,
Ronan,
Matthew Bourne,
La Düsseldorf,
Panda Bear,
Nils Olav,
Black Bananas,
Pantaleimon,
Magma,
Electric Prunes,
Funkadelic,
Wire,
10cc,
Rekid,
Jandek,
Barry Ungar,
Roy Ayers,
New York Dolls,
Cymande,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
a-ha,
Main Source,
kango's stein massive,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bob Dylan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Josef K,
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
Mark Hollis,
Rufus Thomas,
Average White Band,
Ken Boothe,
Joey Negro,
Gang of Four,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Black Dice,
JFA,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.