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 Belarus and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Moss Icon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
Sixth Finger,
Maurizio,
Hashim,
Mr. Review,
Todd Terry,
DJ Style,
The Skatalites,
Parry Music,
The Dead C,
Deakin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scientists,
Howard Jones,
Yusef Lateef,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bronski Beat,
The Litter,
B.T. Express,
Wally Richardson,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sonics,
Andrew Hill,
Pere Ubu,
Jeff Lynne,
The Cure,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Smog,
Subhumans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter and Kerry,
The Happenings,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blancmange,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Letta Mbulu,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Pantaleimon,
U.S. Maple,
Television,
Mad Mike,
The Mummies,
The Associates,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
FM Einheit,
Darondo,
Piero Umiliani,
Colin Newman,
Television Personalities,
Boz Scaggs,
Lyres,
Nik Kershaw,
Echospace,
Nas,
Skarface,
Visage,
Lee Hazlewood,
Vainqueur,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.