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 Belgium and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
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 arpeggiator 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 Negative Approach to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Dennis Brown,
Rakim,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alice Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sugar Minott,
Donny Hathaway,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Byrd,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flash Fearless,
Joey Negro,
Ten City,
Organ,
Unwound,
Shuggie Otis,
Soulsonic Force,
Subhumans,
The Divine Comedy,
Brothers Johnson,
Agent Orange,
X-102,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Technova,
These Immortal Souls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Charles Mingus,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Coltrane,
Visage,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grey Daturas,
Bush Tetras,
Circle Jerks,
The Smiths,
Wally Richardson,
Brand Nubian,
Patti Smith,
Country Teasers,
Barrington Levy,
Anakelly,
The Move,
Shoche,
Marc Almond,
Parry Music,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Associates,
Neil Young,
the Germs,
Hoover,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.