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 Thailand and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Idris Muhammad to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Hot Snakes,
Bootsy Collins,
The Golliwogs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wasted Youth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gong,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Osbourne,
Howard Jones,
Steve Hackett,
The New Christs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Accadde A,
John Coltrane,
The Cure,
The Angels of Light,
Yusef Lateef,
The Names,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Model 500,
Roxy Music,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
the Bar-Kays,
D'Angelo,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
Symarip,
Ten City,
Oblivians,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers,
The Gun Club,
Graham Central Station,
June Days,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rites of Spring,
Thompson Twins,
Soft Machine,
Cluster,
Stiv Bators,
The Raincoats,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sam Rivers,
Niagra,
The Happenings,
Q and Not U,
La Düsseldorf,
Make Up,
Essential Logic,
Amazonics,
Depeche Mode,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.