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 Switzerland and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Matthew Halsall to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Don Cherry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mars,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
the Soft Cell,
Joe Finger,
Average White Band,
The Trojans,
Roy Ayers,
Symarip,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eve St. Jones,
Blake Baxter,
Idris Muhammad,
Wings,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Neon Judgement,
Audionom,
The Index,
Brand Nubian,
Barrington Levy,
Chris & Cosey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Duran Duran,
Newcleus,
Rakim,
Oneida,
Public Enemy,
Heaven 17,
Saccharine Trust,
Isaac Hayes,
The Vogues,
Camberwell Now,
Organ,
Neu!,
Moby Grape,
The Fall,
L. Decosne,
Gabor Szabo,
Hardrive,
Fugazi,
Eden Ahbez,
Young Marble Giants,
Zero Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
a-ha,
Camouflage,
Stiv Bators,
Siglo XX,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Pop Group,
Ice-T,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter and Kerry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.