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 Somalia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 OOIOO to the jazz 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeff Lynne,
DNA,
Scratch Acid,
Gichy Dan,
Zapp,
The Litter,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantaleimon,
The Index,
Nick Fraelich,
Lyres,
China Crisis,
Spandau Ballet,
Flash Fearless,
The Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
Eric Dolphy,
Stetsasonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Unrelated Segments,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultimate Spinach,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
F. McDonald,
Bill Near,
Lou Reed,
Television,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Procol Harum,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Maurizio,
James White and The Blacks,
48th St. Collective,
Alton Ellis,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Derrick May,
The Zeros,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scan 7,
The Barracudas,
Dual Sessions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mad Mike,
Junior Murvin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lakeside,
New York Dolls,
Flipper,
Connie Case,
Godley & Creme,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.