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 Poland and from Glasgow.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the crunk 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Black Flag,
The Divine Comedy,
CMW,
Hoover,
Peter & Gordon,
Grey Daturas,
Gang Starr,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick May,
X-101,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Dirtbombs,
Royal Trux,
The Trojans,
Kayak,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hashim,
The Fugs,
Rakim,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sparks,
The Monochrome Set,
Groovy Waters,
Susan Cadogan,
The Offenders,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Skatalites,
Harmonia,
Wolf Eyes,
June Days,
Godley & Creme,
Ken Boothe,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Smog,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Holt,
Juan Atkins,
The Litter,
Max Romeo,
AZ,
Stetsasonic,
Marine Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Tommy Roe,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Birthday Party,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jawbox,
DJ Sneak,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kenny Larkin,
Qualms,
Television,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.