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 Samoa and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Quadrant to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soft Machine,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sight & Sound,
PIL,
The Alarm Clocks,
World's Most,
The Black Dice,
Half Japanese,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Visage,
Fat Boys,
Stetsasonic,
Groovy Waters,
The Fall,
The Velvet Underground,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ossler,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Max Romeo,
Suburban Knight,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Laurel Aitken,
Davy DMX,
Rotary Connection,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Severed Heads,
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
The Fuzztones,
Iggy Pop,
Grauzone,
Desert Stars,
Janne Schatter,
the Germs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Saccharine Trust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Alice Coltrane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Talk Talk,
Babytalk,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Slackers,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.