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 Morocco and from Stockholm.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Divine Comedy to the funk 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Basic Channel,
Nik Kershaw,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Morten Harket,
Roxette,
Groovy Waters,
Silicon Teens,
Parry Music,
Q65,
Harry Pussy,
A Certain Ratio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brothers Johnson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visage,
Main Source,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
June of 44,
Animal Collective,
The Selecter,
Sandy B,
The Gap Band,
LL Cool J,
Deadbeat,
Joey Negro,
Intrusion,
Wire,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Sneak,
Drexciya,
Amon Düül,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Skriet,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection,
Radiohead,
The Fuzztones,
Glambeats Corp.,
CMW,
Rakim,
T. Rex,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nico,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
X-102,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Desert Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mad Mike,
Japan,
Surgeon,
Sound Behaviour,
Fluxion,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DJ Style,
Moss Icon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.