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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
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 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 Robert Palmer 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 Outsiders to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
D'Angelo,
Schoolly D,
The Fugs,
Mo-Dettes,
The Moody Blues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lower 48,
Ituana,
Swans,
Make Up,
Ronnie Foster,
Iggy Pop,
H. Thieme,
Joy Division,
Yellowson,
Agitation Free,
Boz Scaggs,
Cal Tjader,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Clear Light,
Warsaw,
Oneida,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Aloha Tigers,
Sun City Girls,
UT,
Neil Young,
Cluster,
Von Mondo,
Eve St. Jones,
Adolescents,
Throbbing Gristle,
Glenn Branca,
China Crisis,
The Standells,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
La Düsseldorf,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Graham Central Station,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul II Soul,
The Smiths,
The Angels of Light,
Sixth Finger,
Black Bananas,
Pylon,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.