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 Argentina and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 marimba 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 Faust to the grime 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Clarke,
Fear,
KRS-One,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Faust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
Quadrant,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flash Fearless,
Scion,
Siglo XX,
The Human League,
Dark Day,
Wire,
The Neon Judgement,
Dual Sessions,
The Standells,
Sparks,
Grey Daturas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Tremeloes,
Zero Boys,
China Crisis,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Slackers,
Reuben Wilson,
Vainqueur,
The Toasters,
L. Decosne,
Sällskapet,
Inner City,
Pagans,
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rotary Connection,
X-102,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soul II Soul,
Soul Sonic Force,
Intrusion,
Can,
Deakin,
Blancmange,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soulsonic Force,
Monks,
Panda Bear,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Associates,
Fugazi,
Althea and Donna,
Graham Central Station,
Metal Thangz,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.