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 Guyana and from Johannesburg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Royal Trux to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donald Byrd,
Gerry Rafferty,
A Certain Ratio,
These Immortal Souls,
Sandy B,
The Young Rascals,
Barry Ungar,
Dark Day,
L. Decosne,
UT,
Joe Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Underground Resistance,
The Blues Magoos,
Lungfish,
The Martian,
The Move,
Radiohead,
Stereo Dub,
Bang On A Can,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Howard Jones,
K-Klass,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soft Machine,
Connie Case,
X-101,
The Dead C,
Talk Talk,
F. McDonald,
La Düsseldorf,
Clear Light,
kango's stein massive,
The Pop Group,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Judy Mowatt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Toni Rubio,
The Selecter,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scott Walker,
Darondo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Adolescents,
Sixth Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Kinks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dennis Brown,
June Days,
Lou Reed,
The Slackers,
New Order,
Procol Harum,
Fluxion,
The Litter,
Boz Scaggs,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.