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 Croatia and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Arab on Radar to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magma,
The Divine Comedy,
Technova,
Royal Trux,
Von Mondo,
The Sonics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crash Course in Science,
The Birthday Party,
Lebanon Hanover,
Junior Murvin,
Morten Harket,
Stetsasonic,
The Skatalites,
Fear,
John Lydon,
Skarface,
Mandrill,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oblivians,
Groovy Waters,
The Gories,
Pulsallama,
The Mojo Men,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Amon Düül,
Aswad,
Don Cherry,
Ronan,
Vainqueur,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Smog,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Misunderstood,
Glambeats Corp.,
Patti Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nirvana,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Negative Approach,
Blake Baxter,
Wire,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe,
Hoover,
cv313,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Average White Band,
the Human League,
Young Marble Giants,
Lalann,
Davy DMX,
Judy Mowatt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.