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 Malawi and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro 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 The Motions to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DJ Style,
Deakin,
The Young Rascals,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alison Limerick,
The Monochrome Set,
Parry Music,
One Last Wish,
Monks,
Eli Mardock,
Unrelated Segments,
LL Cool J,
In Retrospect,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Derrick May,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
John Holt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Searchers,
Agent Orange,
Pierre Henry,
The Five Americans,
Bad Manners,
Blossom Toes,
Schoolly D,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pole,
Swans,
Faraquet,
Public Enemy,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Boredoms,
Average White Band,
Urselle,
Marmalade,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Count Five,
Radiohead,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ponytail,
U.S. Maple,
Con Funk Shun,
Roger Hodgson,
Kas Product,
Flipper,
A Certain Ratio,
The Martian,
The Mighty Diamonds,
This Heat,
Chris & Cosey,
Erykah Badu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun City Girls,
Morten Harket,
The Buckinghams,
The Fortunes,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.