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 Lebanon and from London.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Negative Approach to the punk 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barrington Levy,
The Names,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Wyatt,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Dark Day,
John Foxx,
These Immortal Souls,
Infiniti,
Suburban Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
China Crisis,
The Associates,
The Red Krayola,
Ohio Players,
Moss Icon,
Youth Brigade,
Sister Nancy,
Zero Boys,
Carl Craig,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sam Rivers,
The Invisible,
Popol Vuh,
The Slackers,
Absolute Body Control,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
The Stooges,
Bush Tetras,
Barry Ungar,
Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
F. McDonald,
Unwound,
Minutemen,
Cameo,
Basic Channel,
Shuggie Otis,
T.S.O.L.,
The Offenders,
The Blackbyrds,
T. Rex,
Rosa Yemen,
UT,
David McCallum,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Steve Hackett,
Aswad,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.