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 Bangladesh and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lungfish to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Banda Bassotti,
Lungfish,
Morten Harket,
Matthew Halsall,
Sparks,
Marc Almond,
Panda Bear,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dead Boys,
Massinfluence,
Terrestrial Tones,
The J.B.'s,
Das Ding,
The Flesh Eaters,
Second Layer,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Pus,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
T. Rex,
Agitation Free,
The American Breed,
Colin Newman,
Icehouse,
Roger Hodgson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nirvana,
Eric Dolphy,
Barrington Levy,
Graham Central Station,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quadrant,
Subhumans,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
China Crisis,
Letta Mbulu,
The Associates,
Section 25,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gories,
Kas Product,
Technova,
Jeff Lynne,
Japan,
Guru Guru,
Television Personalities,
EPMD,
Amazonics,
Arab on Radar,
Warren Ellis,
Bill Near,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Monochrome Set,
Deakin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Prince Buster,
Lyres,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.