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 Marshall Islands and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar 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 Japan to the grime 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Ronnie Foster,
Barry Ungar,
Subhumans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Josef K,
Sparks,
Lakeside,
Al Stewart,
Symarip,
The Motions,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Radio Birdman,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Jawbox,
Matthew Halsall,
Donald Byrd,
Hot Snakes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
China Crisis,
Alice Coltrane,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Leonard Cohen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cramps,
Deadbeat,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Byrd,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Moody Blues,
The Pop Group,
Cybotron,
Con Funk Shun,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wolf Eyes,
The Dirtbombs,
Siglo XX,
Slick Rick,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare,
Magazine,
Public Enemy,
Sugar Minott,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Coltrane,
Banda Bassotti,
Ken Boothe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maurizio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ponytail,
The American Breed,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.