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 Mali and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Gang of Four,
Robert Hood,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Invisible,
Au Pairs,
The Smoke,
Infiniti,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
This Heat,
The Gap Band,
Iggy Pop,
Subhumans,
The Happenings,
The Buckinghams,
Al Stewart,
The Stooges,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
Moebius,
John Holt,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul Sonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Reagan Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Erasure,
The Associates,
R.M.O.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Loose Ends,
Nik Kershaw,
Accadde A,
Ituana,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang Gang Dance,
One Last Wish,
The Monochrome Set,
Bauhaus,
Joyce Sims,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
The Wake,
Sun Ra,
E-Dancer,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eli Mardock,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Juan Atkins,
Severed Heads,
Harry Pussy,
Marvin Gaye,
Sound Behaviour,
Buzzcocks,
Tim Buckley,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.