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 Malaysia and from Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Clear Light 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Danielle Patucci,
The Music Machine,
The Durutti Column,
Quadrant,
Crash Course in Science,
Man Eating Sloth,
Organ,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül II,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Siglo XX,
Outsiders,
Popol Vuh,
the Normal,
Blake Baxter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tres Demented,
Simply Red,
The Leaves,
Minor Threat,
Porter Ricks,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
Amazonics,
The Raincoats,
Nico,
Radio Birdman,
Tears for Fears,
Eddi Front,
Eden Ahbez,
Carl Craig,
Joensuu 1685,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terry Callier,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
World's Most,
Essential Logic,
Pole,
Faust,
Robert Hood,
Stiv Bators,
The Real Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Youth Brigade,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
8 Eyed Spy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.