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 Palau and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ituana to the techno 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
World's Most,
Matthew Bourne,
Prince Buster,
Ice-T,
MC5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Visage,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kayak,
Judy Mowatt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Enemy,
Ituana,
Black Sheep,
Symarip,
Mars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sarah Menescal,
Sister Nancy,
The Associates,
The Smiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kurtis Blow,
The Gladiators,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Metal Thangz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Janne Schatter,
ABC,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pet Shop Boys,
The Music Machine,
Dead Boys,
Ohio Players,
Motorama,
John Lydon,
Byron Stingily,
Laurel Aitken,
Girls At Our Best!,
Excepter,
Q65,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Arab on Radar,
Schoolly D,
Black Flag,
Marshall Jefferson,
ABBA,
Reuben Wilson,
The Smoke,
Hasil Adkins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Urselle,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.