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 Hungary and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar 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 Soulsonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Gregory Isaacs,
Easy Going,
Moss Icon,
The Electric Prunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Delta 5,
Reagan Youth,
Arab on Radar,
Minny Pops,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bluetip,
Camouflage,
Bootsy Collins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Loose Ends,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Johnny Clarke,
Roy Ayers,
The Angels of Light,
Pantaleimon,
D'Angelo,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Green,
Swans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DJ Style,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rosa Yemen,
The Doors,
Shuggie Otis,
The Techniques,
Nick Fraelich,
Symarip,
KRS-One,
Sparks,
Man Parrish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Warsaw,
Joensuu 1685,
Minnie Riperton,
Warren Ellis,
Altered Images,
The Young Rascals,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fad Gadget,
Scion,
John Cale,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Darondo,
The Cure,
Patti Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
The Zeros,
Andrew Hill,
Outsiders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.