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 Uruguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe 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 Todd Rundgren to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
the Germs,
David McCallum,
The Slits,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scan 7,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Swans,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeff Mills,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Organ,
The Human League,
The Offenders,
The Dirtbombs,
the Sonics,
Todd Rundgren,
Infiniti,
The Gladiators,
ABC,
Warsaw,
The Stooges,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Vainqueur,
Schoolly D,
Eli Mardock,
Moebius,
Ossler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pierre Henry,
The Fire Engines,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Johnny Clarke,
Neu!,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-101,
Anakelly,
Crash Course in Science,
Make Up,
Byron Stingily,
The Walker Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Tears for Fears,
China Crisis,
Suicide,
Gerry Rafferty,
Prince Buster,
Morten Harket,
Cheater Slicks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Moon,
The Grass Roots,
Eric B and Rakim,
Suburban Knight,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.