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 Italy and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Public Image Ltd. to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fall,
the Slits,
Gastr Del Sol,
Outsiders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yaz,
Todd Rundgren,
Crime,
Moebius,
Girls At Our Best!,
Neil Young,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Mr. Review,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dave Gahan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Infiniti,
Scott Walker,
Barbara Tucker,
Junior Murvin,
Can,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
Aural Exciters,
Donald Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Steve Hackett,
The Gories,
Easy Going,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Neon Judgement,
the Swans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cal Tjader,
The Grass Roots,
Camberwell Now,
Ultimate Spinach,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
DJ Sneak,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wally Richardson,
Nils Olav,
The Motions,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
Charles Mingus,
The United States of America,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
The Moody Blues,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cure,
Deepchord,
Magma,
Eve St. Jones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.