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 Switzerland and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 Magma to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Flag,
48th St. Collective,
Mary Jane Girls,
Clear Light,
The Fall,
The Stooges,
Organ,
Brothers Johnson,
Tubeway Army,
The Mojo Men,
Joyce Sims,
Crispy Ambulance,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ossler,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerri Chandler,
Dennis Brown,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Altered Images,
Sun City Girls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nation of Ulysses,
Main Source,
Groovy Waters,
Lindisfarne,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Swans,
Qualms,
a-ha,
Simply Red,
The Golliwogs,
Electric Prunes,
DJ Sneak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeru the Damaja,
Newcleus,
Shuggie Otis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gap Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Donny Hathaway,
Quando Quango,
Excepter,
The Associates,
Adolescents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ronan,
Buzzcocks,
Hardrive,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Pop Group,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gladiators,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.