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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Seoul and Jakarta.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pylon to the funk 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
the Association,
Glenn Branca,
Zero Boys,
The Smoke,
Harmonia,
Danielle Patucci,
Davy DMX,
June of 44,
Ice-T,
10cc,
The Move,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
Joensuu 1685,
OOIOO,
Cal Tjader,
Scrapy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Angry Samoans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Funkadelic,
The Kinks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Masters at Work,
Inner City,
Flipper,
Sun City Girls,
Mary Jane Girls,
World's Most,
Pulsallama,
Pantytec,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
La Düsseldorf,
Siglo XX,
Rites of Spring,
Amazonics,
Peter and Kerry,
PIL,
Lyres,
The Star Department,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Dolphy,
Silicon Teens,
Isaac Hayes,
Massinfluence,
The Cure,
Kenny Larkin,
Young Marble Giants,
Subhumans,
Qualms,
Kool Moe Dee,
Al Stewart,
Cluster,
Excepter,
Jandek,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.