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 Swaziland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 grunge 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Man Parrish,
Audionom,
Carl Craig,
Darondo,
Aaron Thompson,
The Litter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Yusef Lateef,
The Doors,
Freddie Wadling,
Scott Walker,
Crime,
Marvin Gaye,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Television Personalities,
The Searchers,
Harmonia,
Niagra,
The Raincoats,
The Doobie Brothers,
Technova,
Pantytec,
Gang of Four,
Country Teasers,
Kaleidoscope,
Basic Channel,
Neil Young,
CMW,
The Slits,
Trumans Water,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Franke,
Erykah Badu,
JFA,
Chris Corsano,
The Monochrome Set,
The Beau Brummels,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Fortunes,
The Gun Club,
Rites of Spring,
Lou Reed,
Michelle Simonal,
Minny Pops,
Terry Callier,
The Walker Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ronnie Foster,
Connie Case,
Zapp,
Gichy Dan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ohio Players,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slick Rick,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.