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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Talk Talk to the rap 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron 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 linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
The Birthday Party,
Skaos,
Reagan Youth,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
Pagans,
Porter Ricks,
The Index,
Flash Fearless,
Easy Going,
Erasure,
the Normal,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pole,
Eli Mardock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Talk Talk,
Heaven 17,
Rhythm & Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
China Crisis,
Harmonia,
Vladislav Delay,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mandrill,
Fela Kuti,
Gong,
Ludus,
Patti Smith,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eden Ahbez,
D'Angelo,
Sandy B,
Steve Hackett,
Joyce Sims,
The Toasters,
Silicon Teens,
Wolf Eyes,
The Young Rascals,
B.T. Express,
June of 44,
Aloha Tigers,
Byron Stingily,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
T.S.O.L.,
Pussy Galore,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Banda Bassotti,
Kerrie Biddell,
Junior Murvin,
Vainqueur,
Magma,
Suicide,
Kool Moe Dee,
Man Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Technova,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.