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 Monaco and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 Kenny Larkin to the punk 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Tremeloes,
Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Slits,
The Grass Roots,
Alphaville,
Jeff Mills,
The Gladiators,
Negative Approach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Walker Brothers,
Rod Modell,
Ultra Naté,
Blancmange,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ituana,
Nik Kershaw,
Erykah Badu,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
Lakeside,
Deakin,
Soul II Soul,
John Coltrane,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lindisfarne,
Fluxion,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dirtbombs,
The Happenings,
Bush Tetras,
The Monks,
Wolf Eyes,
Hashim,
Archie Shepp,
Maleditus Sound,
Massinfluence,
Howard Jones,
The Mojo Men,
The Music Machine,
The Residents,
Rotary Connection,
The Litter,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Divine Comedy,
Alton Ellis,
Fad Gadget,
Buzzcocks,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tom Boy,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobby Womack,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ronan,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.