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 Tajikistan and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Throbbing Gristle to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Idris Muhammad,
Rotary Connection,
Barrington Levy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amazonics,
Cheater Slicks,
Sight & Sound,
Country Teasers,
Underground Resistance,
Organ,
10cc,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Accadde A,
The Kinks,
The Barracudas,
Peter and Kerry,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
The Associates,
Bluetip,
Sixth Finger,
Interpol,
Eric Dolphy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Warsaw,
Sexual Harrassment,
June Days,
Monks,
Moss Icon,
Blossom Toes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Masters at Work,
The Raincoats,
Arab on Radar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris & Cosey,
Television,
Slave,
Erasure,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wasted Youth,
Gang of Four,
Whodini,
Harpers Bizarre,
Schoolly D,
The J.B.'s,
Crash Course in Science,
Alton Ellis,
Tim Buckley,
Roger Hodgson,
The Blackbyrds,
Thee Headcoats,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Andrew Hill,
the Bar-Kays,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Freddie Wadling,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.