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 Micronesia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer 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 Black Moon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Sugar Minott,
FM Einheit,
New Age Steppers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Q and Not U,
Theoretical Girls,
Trumans Water,
Susan Cadogan,
Lalann,
DNA,
Scrapy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Prunes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Darondo,
Steve Hackett,
Matthew Bourne,
The Residents,
The Blackbyrds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Icehouse,
Minnie Riperton,
The Birthday Party,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Excepter,
Can,
Glenn Branca,
Bauhaus,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
Stetsasonic,
The Smoke,
Marine Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fatback Band,
World's Most,
Marc Almond,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Techniques,
Unrelated Segments,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Copeland,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monks,
Fear,
Neu!,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Al Stewart,
Dead Boys,
Erasure,
Amon Düül,
The Dirtbombs,
PIL,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.