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 Italy and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sonny Sharrock to the rock 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-Ray Spex,
New York Dolls,
Agitation Free,
Ituana,
Mr. Review,
Niagra,
Iggy Pop,
Smog,
Crooked Eye,
The Litter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DJ Style,
The Blues Magoos,
The Residents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Yazoo,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Cale,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
John Holt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
The Selecter,
Chris Corsano,
The Black Dice,
Blancmange,
Scratch Acid,
Crispian St. Peters,
F. McDonald,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Moody Blues,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Coltrane,
Bush Tetras,
The Techniques,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Isaac Hayes,
10cc,
Darondo,
Ken Boothe,
Interpol,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roxette,
Clear Light,
Lou Christie,
Nirvana,
Sun City Girls,
Swans,
The Seeds,
Kas Product,
Jacob Miller,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aswad,
Jeff Lynne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camberwell Now,
the Swans,
Franke,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.