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 Jordan and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 R.M.O. to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ornette Coleman,
Matthew Halsall,
Gong,
In Retrospect,
Dual Sessions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Slave,
Adolescents,
Scan 7,
Zapp,
Sonic Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
Nils Olav,
Sun City Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Mark Hollis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Au Pairs,
Sam Rivers,
Joe Finger,
Masters at Work,
Section 25,
The Dave Clark Five,
Circle Jerks,
Sight & Sound,
Swans,
James White and The Blacks,
The Star Department,
Young Marble Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
LL Cool J,
Surgeon,
Model 500,
The Golliwogs,
John Foxx,
CMW,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
Henry Cow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Judy Mowatt,
Talk Talk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Subhumans,
Symarip,
The Cramps,
F. McDonald,
The Red Krayola,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Moody Blues,
Erykah Badu,
Wings,
Michelle Simonal,
Schoolly D,
Robert Hood,
the Slits,
Can,
Hot Snakes,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.