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 Nepal and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Japan to the grunge 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 Associates. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Visage,
D'Angelo,
Robert Wyatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
EPMD,
The Doobie Brothers,
Piero Umiliani,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fire Engines,
Sun City Girls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Excepter,
La Düsseldorf,
Robert Görl,
Iggy Pop,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stereo Dub,
Underground Resistance,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Durutti Column,
Chrome,
Das Ding,
Big Daddy Kane,
David Axelrod,
Quantec,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arcadia,
Youth Brigade,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marvin Gaye,
The Invisible,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Von Mondo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
It's A Beautiful Day,
FM Einheit,
The Black Dice,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Steve Hackett,
Suicide,
Newcleus,
Camouflage,
U.S. Maple,
Minor Threat,
The Smiths,
Scratch Acid,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brick,
Wire,
Eli Mardock,
Half Japanese,
Theoretical Girls,
Terry Callier,
Interpol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rekid,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.