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 Bahrain 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb 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 Mission of Burma to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Ultra Naté,
Popol Vuh,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
Rosa Yemen,
Mantronix,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MC5,
Grauzone,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA,
Mandrill,
Funkadelic,
The Leaves,
Matthew Bourne,
Symarip,
Joensuu 1685,
The Music Machine,
Metal Thangz,
Funky Four + One,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kenny Larkin,
La Düsseldorf,
T. Rex,
Nils Olav,
Rekid,
E-Dancer,
The Cure,
Agitation Free,
OOIOO,
Swell Maps,
Television Personalities,
Ponytail,
Minutemen,
Dawn Penn,
Scott Walker,
Barrington Levy,
Faraquet,
Slave,
Skriet,
Slick Rick,
Intrusion,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Soft Cell,
Fat Boys,
K-Klass,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
48th St. Collective,
The Fire Engines,
Judy Mowatt,
The Modern Lovers,
Tim Buckley,
Mo-Dettes,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.