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 Korea North and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Camberwell Now to the disco 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moss Icon,
Derrick May,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Heaven 17,
Electric Prunes,
Stetsasonic,
Harry Pussy,
Eddi Front,
Fatback Band,
Eli Mardock,
a-ha,
Rites of Spring,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Techniques,
Schoolly D,
Yusef Lateef,
Prince Buster,
The Leaves,
The Angels of Light,
Negative Approach,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nirvana,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sparks,
Magma,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ultra Naté,
Matthew Bourne,
Shoche,
Marvin Gaye,
Audionom,
Dual Sessions,
Radio Birdman,
Popol Vuh,
The Evens,
Anthony Braxton,
The Golliwogs,
The Raincoats,
James White and The Blacks,
Arthur Verocai,
Nick Fraelich,
Angry Samoans,
Joy Division,
Infiniti,
Symarip,
Stiv Bators,
Fear,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Porter Ricks,
The Young Rascals,
The Walker Brothers,
Hasil Adkins,
The Vogues,
Ohio Players,
The Cramps,
Tomorrow,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lyres,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.