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 Mongolia and from Delhi.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Rosa Yemen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Archie Shepp,
MC5,
Wire,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sixth Finger,
Barbara Tucker,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
The Durutti Column,
The Slits,
Japan,
Deepchord,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Ultra Naté,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Mojo Men,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boredoms,
Section 25,
Henry Cow,
The Divine Comedy,
Maleditus Sound,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fugs,
The Move,
Pussy Galore,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stereo Dub,
Visage,
Wasted Youth,
The Raincoats,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oneida,
Surgeon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Depeche Mode,
Loose Ends,
Ohio Players,
Idris Muhammad,
Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band,
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liliput,
the Association,
Scientists,
The Leaves,
The Fall,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cameo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Spandau Ballet,
Index,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Laurel Aitken,
kango's stein massive,
Zapp,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.