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 United Kingdom and from Madrid.
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 Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric B and Rakim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Sarah Menescal,
Simply Red,
Bauhaus,
Mad Mike,
Scan 7,
Morten Harket,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Smooth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
Dorothy Ashby,
Adolescents,
Massinfluence,
The Human League,
Little Man,
Scratch Acid,
The Real Kids,
Niagra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Drive Like Jehu,
Vladislav Delay,
Bang On A Can,
Lyres,
Visage,
Echospace,
Man Parrish,
Dark Day,
The Associates,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Star Department,
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Warren Ellis,
The Slackers,
John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stiv Bators,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Altered Images,
The Golliwogs,
cv313,
Duran Duran,
The Skatalites,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Görl,
Easy Going,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Selecter,
Spoonie Gee,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rosa Yemen,
Wolf Eyes,
Moby Grape,
Make Up,
The Trojans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.