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 Korea North and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar 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 Barbara Tucker to the dance 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Black Pus,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed,
The J.B.'s,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Letta Mbulu,
The Star Department,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Niagra,
Mr. Review,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
Sexual Harrassment,
A Certain Ratio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Robert Wyatt,
Yaz,
The Blues Magoos,
Audionom,
K-Klass,
The Wake,
Depeche Mode,
Eli Mardock,
Minnie Riperton,
Zapp,
Banda Bassotti,
Essential Logic,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rufus Thomas,
Bush Tetras,
The Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Fraelich,
Oblivians,
Porter Ricks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Model 500,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
Roxette,
Fluxion,
The American Breed,
Procol Harum,
Bauhaus,
Sandy B,
Godley & Creme,
New Age Steppers,
Motorama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pantytec,
Groovy Waters,
David Bowie,
Hashim,
Spandau Ballet,
Can,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.