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 Nicaragua and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Von Mondo to the crunk 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Barbara Tucker,
The Searchers,
Eddi Front,
One Last Wish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Frankie Knuckles,
Letta Mbulu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Bananas,
Mad Mike,
Dark Day,
Parry Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Icehouse,
Los Fastidios,
Basic Channel,
The Monochrome Set,
The Misunderstood,
Clear Light,
T.S.O.L.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dead C,
the Bar-Kays,
Juan Atkins,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erasure,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Buckinghams,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Boz Scaggs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harry Pussy,
Royal Trux,
Electric Prunes,
Dave Gahan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Stooges,
Bob Dylan,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Wake,
Flash Fearless,
The Real Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crispian St. Peters,
Surgeon,
Sound Behaviour,
Loose Ends,
Lower 48,
Wally Richardson,
Joy Division,
The Names,
Brick,
Circle Jerks,
Rakim,
James White and The Blacks,
In Retrospect,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.