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 China and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Television to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
This Heat,
Dual Sessions,
Hasil Adkins,
Matthew Bourne,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd,
Minor Threat,
U.S. Maple,
Deadbeat,
Funky Four + One,
The Litter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rites of Spring,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
X-Ray Spex,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Average White Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Steve Hackett,
Albert Ayler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Techniques,
Accadde A,
The Monks,
Newcleus,
Infiniti,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Erykah Badu,
The Smiths,
Flash Fearless,
the Human League,
Organ,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lakeside,
Vladislav Delay,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
New Order,
Q and Not U,
The Count Five,
Judy Mowatt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Aural Exciters,
Alton Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
E-Dancer,
Wire,
Cameo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
48th St. Collective,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
Basic Channel,
Silicon Teens,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.