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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kerri Chandler to the disco 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Cameo,
Nick Fraelich,
Hasil Adkins,
The Human League,
Bush Tetras,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kenny Larkin,
Kayak,
Chris Corsano,
Mandrill,
The Star Department,
Darondo,
Lightning Bolt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Alphaville,
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
Colin Newman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Icehouse,
Maurizio,
Radio Birdman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Japan,
Tim Buckley,
The Techniques,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sister Nancy,
Siglo XX,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
Mission of Burma,
The Beau Brummels,
Infiniti,
The Leaves,
L. Decosne,
Organ,
Mr. Review,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roxy Music,
Talk Talk,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pere Ubu,
The Sound,
Lou Reed,
The Slackers,
Eli Mardock,
Juan Atkins,
Mo-Dettes,
Lucky Dragons,
Tom Boy,
Depeche Mode,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jacques Brel,
Dawn Penn,
The Last Poets,
Pole,
Slick Rick,
Silicon Teens,
Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.