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 Switzerland and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Rufus Thomas to the jazz 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Second Layer,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fuzztones,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Magma,
Porter Ricks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Neon Judgement,
MC5,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang of Four,
The Searchers,
The Cowsills,
Barrington Levy,
Monks,
Bobby Womack,
Dave Gahan,
Royal Trux,
Cluster,
Negative Approach,
Gregory Isaacs,
World's Most,
The Techniques,
Quadrant,
Bobby Sherman,
Rapeman,
The Dirtbombs,
Morten Harket,
Supertramp,
Monolake,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Order,
Juan Atkins,
The Monochrome Set,
Sällskapet,
Minor Threat,
Don Cherry,
Moebius,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mark Hollis,
Hashim,
Agent Orange,
The Shadows of Knight,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brand Nubian,
Scrapy,
Das Ding,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
Robert Hood,
Glenn Branca,
Gang Starr,
a-ha,
Lightning Bolt,
Newcleus,
Hoover,
Stiv Bators,
Wire,
Niagra,
Thompson Twins,
Little Man,
Cheater Slicks,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.