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 Germany and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Nico to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Marine Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rekid,
Funky Four + One,
Grey Daturas,
Spoonie Gee,
DNA,
Jeff Lynne,
Pagans,
The Wake,
Nick Fraelich,
JFA,
Roger Hodgson,
R.M.O.,
The Young Rascals,
Sound Behaviour,
Fugazi,
Hot Snakes,
Hasil Adkins,
Amon Düül,
Donny Hathaway,
Cameo,
Archie Shepp,
The Busters,
Ronnie Foster,
The Residents,
Freddie Wadling,
Sexual Harrassment,
Intrusion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eric B and Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Essential Logic,
Subhumans,
Stereo Dub,
Masters at Work,
Henry Cow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camouflage,
Junior Murvin,
Man Parrish,
kango's stein massive,
Neu!,
Main Source,
Reagan Youth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
cv313,
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Black Flag,
EPMD,
The Stooges,
The Happenings,
Pussy Galore,
Minor Threat,
The Fall,
Thee Headcoats,
The Dead C,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.