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 South Sudan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Portland and Bremen.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Toni Rubio to the disco 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris & Cosey,
the Association,
Black Bananas,
Connie Case,
The Count Five,
Reuben Wilson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zero Boys,
Smog,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aswad,
the Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Popol Vuh,
EPMD,
Dave Gahan,
Wings,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neu!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Trumans Water,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harmonia,
the Human League,
Bronski Beat,
Vladislav Delay,
ABBA,
the Swans,
The Skatalites,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aaron Thompson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Blossom Toes,
The Birthday Party,
Don Cherry,
Charles Mingus,
Erasure,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Bobby Womack,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minor Threat,
Roxette,
cv313,
Deakin,
The Vogues,
Sister Nancy,
Unwound,
Minutemen,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crispy Ambulance,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.