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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba 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 Gang of Four to the rap 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Reagan Youth,
The Tremeloes,
Smog,
The Associates,
Tim Buckley,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Index,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Chrome,
Michelle Simonal,
Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Loose Ends,
Robert Wyatt,
The Litter,
Graham Central Station,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mad Mike,
Ituana,
MC5,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Fortunes,
Section 25,
Yaz,
Lucky Dragons,
Dual Sessions,
Alice Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Minutemen,
Supertramp,
Warsaw,
LL Cool J,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Franke,
The Velvet Underground,
Absolute Body Control,
Wings,
Eve St. Jones,
Das Ding,
The Pop Group,
Cecil Taylor,
Rosa Yemen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Chris Corsano,
Make Up,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultra Naté,
Crooked Eye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shoche,
John Holt,
Q65,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.