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 Canada and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer 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 Nik Kershaw to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Shoche,
Audionom,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Trumans Water,
DJ Style,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
The Walker Brothers,
Wolf Eyes,
Stetsasonic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scion,
Television Personalities,
Monolake,
The Associates,
Eli Mardock,
Aswad,
Minor Threat,
JFA,
Marvin Gaye,
Easy Going,
Urselle,
Glenn Branca,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Au Pairs,
MDC,
Patti Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
June Days,
Kurtis Blow,
Bill Wells,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
A Certain Ratio,
Soft Cell,
Todd Terry,
Q65,
Rites of Spring,
Tres Demented,
Don Cherry,
The Leaves,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Quando Quango,
Banda Bassotti,
Magazine,
Grandmaster Flash,
Iggy Pop,
Country Teasers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Whodini,
Monks,
Crash Course in Science,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.