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 Portugal and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 sitar 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 Second Layer to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Massinfluence,
Pantytec,
Leonard Cohen,
Amazonics,
Altered Images,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Excepter,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Swell Maps,
B.T. Express,
The Wake,
The Index,
Popol Vuh,
Hoover,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül II,
David Bowie,
The American Breed,
Ralphi Rosario,
Supertramp,
The Vogues,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eli Mardock,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Franke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fire Engines,
Lyres,
Heaven 17,
Ohio Players,
The Trojans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
Circle Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Fatback Band,
The Pretty Things,
Bauhaus,
Joy Division,
Boz Scaggs,
Theoretical Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Gong,
Godley & Creme,
The Young Rascals,
KRS-One,
David McCallum,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joe Finger,
Sex Pistols,
Bang On A Can,
Davy DMX,
Nick Fraelich,
The Divine Comedy,
Technova,
Roy Ayers,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.