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 Lesotho and from Seoul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Unrelated Segments to the grime 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
Scan 7,
48th St. Collective,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hardrive,
The Count Five,
The Seeds,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Slits,
Scientists,
Little Man,
Supertramp,
Agent Orange,
Peter & Gordon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scion,
Ponytail,
Rekid,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dennis Brown,
cv313,
Half Japanese,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visage,
David Axelrod,
John Holt,
Lyres,
Ronnie Foster,
Barbara Tucker,
Magazine,
Hot Snakes,
Brothers Johnson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Spandau Ballet,
The Skatalites,
Soft Machine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Procol Harum,
Nas,
Popol Vuh,
Ituana,
Crime,
The Detroit Cobras,
Arthur Verocai,
MDC,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eurythmics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
Josef K,
X-101,
The Barracudas,
Aloha Tigers,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.