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 Vietnam and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Hong Kong.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sam Rivers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
MDC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roxy Music,
Lindisfarne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bronski Beat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hardrive,
Black Sheep,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pagans,
New York Dolls,
the Swans,
Neu!,
8 Eyed Spy,
These Immortal Souls,
Kayak,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Young Marble Giants,
Boredoms,
Fugazi,
Animal Collective,
T.S.O.L.,
Accadde A,
John Lydon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hashim,
The Invisible,
Maurizio,
Soulsonic Force,
Electric Prunes,
Wire,
Amon Düül II,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Monks,
The Grass Roots,
Tropical Tobacco,
Davy DMX,
Bad Manners,
Crime,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Anthony Braxton,
Graham Central Station,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unrelated Segments,
Excepter,
The Fall,
The Pretty Things,
Gastr Del Sol,
LL Cool J,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Archie Shepp,
Carl Craig,
R.M.O.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Robert Wyatt,
The Happenings,
Eve St. Jones,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.