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 Micronesia and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Fluxion to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Skaos,
Organ,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Slits,
Niagra,
Fluxion,
The Star Department,
Bad Manners,
The Gories,
The Searchers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warsaw,
Basic Channel,
Mars,
Saccharine Trust,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Half Japanese,
Fat Boys,
Erasure,
The Evens,
D'Angelo,
The Grass Roots,
Electric Prunes,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Saints,
The Real Kids,
Sex Pistols,
Cheater Slicks,
Bluetip,
The Dave Clark Five,
Y Pants,
Rekid,
Lungfish,
Colin Newman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nico,
Parry Music,
Skriet,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Victims,
Quantec,
The Fall,
China Crisis,
The Young Rascals,
The Flesh Eaters,
Technova,
Angry Samoans,
Talk Talk,
The Doobie Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
The New Christs,
Scratch Acid,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth 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.