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 Laos and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 clarinet 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 Isaac Hayes to the grunge 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pierre Henry,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Invisible,
Howard Jones,
Bang On A Can,
Barclay James Harvest,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wings,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick Morgan,
Soft Machine,
Babytalk,
Jacob Miller,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Model 500,
Spandau Ballet,
Roger Hodgson,
AZ,
Drexciya,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pretty Things,
Oblivians,
The Litter,
the Sonics,
Suicide,
Matthew Halsall,
Guru Guru,
One Last Wish,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Teasers,
Von Mondo,
Robert Hood,
Janne Schatter,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Ken Boothe,
Accadde A,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eddi Front,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Mills,
The Velvet Underground,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
F. McDonald,
Fluxion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James White and The Blacks,
H. Thieme,
The New Christs,
Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
New Age Steppers,
JFA,
Aswad,
Procol Harum,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fall,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.