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 United States and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet 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 The Martian to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
The Slits,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bluetip,
AZ,
Smog,
The Offenders,
The Monochrome Set,
Youth Brigade,
The Grass Roots,
The Angels of Light,
H. Thieme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Yellowson,
Wally Richardson,
New Age Steppers,
R.M.O.,
World's Most,
cv313,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
F. McDonald,
Fatback Band,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Surgeon,
Little Man,
Swans,
Joey Negro,
The Smiths,
Hasil Adkins,
Japan,
The Doobie Brothers,
10cc,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rotary Connection,
Scientists,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
Maurizio,
Colin Newman,
Rakim,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Liliput,
Mark Hollis,
Ohio Players,
The Happenings,
The Zeros,
Tommy Roe,
Black Flag,
Newcleus,
Interpol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
MDC,
Robert Wyatt,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare,
Tubeway Army,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
Livin' Joy,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.