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 St Lucia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
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 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Agent Orange to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Tom Boy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bronski Beat,
X-102,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Fat Boys,
The Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
DJ Style,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Man Parrish,
The Durutti Column,
Ossler,
Public Enemy,
The Grass Roots,
David Bowie,
Black Moon,
The Knickerbockers,
Swans,
Wolf Eyes,
The Pretty Things,
The Toasters,
T. Rex,
JFA,
Zero Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fugs,
Symarip,
Saccharine Trust,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Brick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
The Leaves,
The Smiths,
Kool Moe Dee,
Massinfluence,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kenny Larkin,
Mandrill,
Jeff Lynne,
Kaleidoscope,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Heaven 17,
The Cosmic Jokers,
cv313,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Walker Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aaron Thompson,
Neu!,
Tubeway Army,
Morten Harket,
Grauzone,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kurtis Blow,
World's Most,
Brand Nubian,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.