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 Uruguay and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Judy Mowatt,
Can,
Althea and Donna,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flamin' Groovies,
Zero Boys,
Masters at Work,
Maurizio,
The Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
The Remains,
Deadbeat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Absolute Body Control,
Scott Walker,
Scratch Acid,
Chris Corsano,
Ice-T,
Camberwell Now,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sugar Minott,
Symarip,
Marine Girls,
Ten City,
Severed Heads,
Dawn Penn,
The Move,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sixth Finger,
Scion,
Gong,
Zapp,
Mars,
This Heat,
David McCallum,
Jeff Mills,
Urselle,
Radiohead,
The Searchers,
Scrapy,
Cameo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Oblivians,
Michelle Simonal,
Fad Gadget,
The Dave Clark Five,
Babytalk,
New Age Steppers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anthony Braxton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stetsasonic,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.