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 Colombia and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 China Crisis to the dance 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Boz Scaggs,
This Heat,
Fat Boys,
The Vogues,
Monolake,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Harry Pussy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mantronix,
Graham Central Station,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
The Zeros,
Cybotron,
Yusef Lateef,
Cal Tjader,
Ralphi Rosario,
Echospace,
Ten City,
Ultimate Spinach,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
D'Angelo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Country Teasers,
The Cowsills,
The Victims,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yellowson,
Soft Machine,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Bourne,
Bill Near,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Barracudas,
The Five Americans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Colin Newman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
R.M.O.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Standells,
Alison Limerick,
Parry Music,
Rekid,
Erasure,
Barry Ungar,
John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida,
Blossom Toes,
The Searchers,
Unrelated Segments,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
The Blackbyrds,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.