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 Angola and from Beijing.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rekid to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Saints,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
The Blackbyrds,
Thompson Twins,
Big Daddy Kane,
Inner City,
The Motions,
Deadbeat,
The Shadows of Knight,
AZ,
Subhumans,
Mo-Dettes,
Audionom,
The Neon Judgement,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Trumans Water,
Jacques Brel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
The Sonics,
Ponytail,
Crispy Ambulance,
Janne Schatter,
Bobby Womack,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Evens,
Gang of Four,
Supertramp,
The Beau Brummels,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra,
Marcia Griffiths,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Toasters,
New Order,
Sällskapet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deakin,
Drexciya,
Todd Terry,
Chris & Cosey,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dennis Brown,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Don Cherry,
Q and Not U,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.