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 Paraguay and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Cymande to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Boz Scaggs,
Hashim,
Deepchord,
The Monochrome Set,
Jawbox,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Swans,
Arab on Radar,
The Young Rascals,
The Knickerbockers,
Quadrant,
New Age Steppers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Main Source,
The Selecter,
Barbara Tucker,
Janne Schatter,
Accadde A,
The Skatalites,
Flash Fearless,
Jacob Miller,
ABBA,
The Victims,
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Pantaleimon,
Lucky Dragons,
Bauhaus,
the Association,
Nirvana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blossom Toes,
The Toasters,
Kayak,
Tubeway Army,
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Rundgren,
Goldenarms,
The Raincoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Los Fastidios,
Loose Ends,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gichy Dan,
Pylon,
The Leaves,
Aaron Thompson,
Eden Ahbez,
The Barracudas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.