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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 In Retrospect to the rock 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Easy Going,
The Gladiators,
Todd Rundgren,
Technova,
Angry Samoans,
Suicide,
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers,
The Cure,
Cluster,
Scan 7,
Brass Construction,
Robert Hood,
Ultravox,
The Offenders,
The Toasters,
Groovy Waters,
Kas Product,
Mars,
Albert Ayler,
Ultra Naté,
Second Layer,
Oneida,
Ken Boothe,
Moby Grape,
The Pretty Things,
Lungfish,
Subhumans,
Patti Smith,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Liliput,
Chris Corsano,
Wasted Youth,
Skaos,
Kerri Chandler,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crooked Eye,
Zapp,
8 Eyed Spy,
Little Man,
The New Christs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Count Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nik Kershaw,
In Retrospect,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Franke,
Warren Ellis,
The Dead C,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
The Standells,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare,
Royal Trux,
Nirvana,
Urselle,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.