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 Norway and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 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 Graham Central Station to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Skatalites,
Chrome,
The Associates,
Visage,
Interpol,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tres Demented,
MC5,
Drexciya,
The Music Machine,
The Motions,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Minutemen,
Hardrive,
Goldenarms,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stiv Bators,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Mandrill,
The Invisible,
Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Joe Finger,
Todd Rundgren,
Barbara Tucker,
Tim Buckley,
the Sonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Max Romeo,
New York Dolls,
Howard Jones,
DNA,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Christie,
The Monochrome Set,
R.M.O.,
The Buckinghams,
The Real Kids,
Jacob Miller,
Animal Collective,
Hashim,
Kurtis Blow,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Sheep,
Main Source,
Fluxion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Hood,
Gong,
Cymande,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.