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 Switzerland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cal Tjader to the funk 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Andrew Hill,
Los Fastidios,
The Velvet Underground,
Fugazi,
Soft Cell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxy Music,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bush Tetras,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yusef Lateef,
Altered Images,
The Blues Magoos,
Oblivians,
Nas,
Rekid,
The Count Five,
Joey Negro,
Monks,
Gichy Dan,
The Vogues,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Niagra,
Japan,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Sound,
Maurizio,
Eric Dolphy,
Absolute Body Control,
Lakeside,
T. Rex,
Dennis Brown,
Nation of Ulysses,
Albert Ayler,
Gabor Szabo,
Rod Modell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Guru Guru,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deakin,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Minor Threat,
Alphaville,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suicide,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mantronix,
World's Most,
Shoche,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.