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 Fiji and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pussy Galore to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Connie Case,
Shuggie Otis,
Animal Collective,
Marmalade,
The Techniques,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fela Kuti,
Spoonie Gee,
Fad Gadget,
James Chance & The Contortions,
June Days,
The Doors,
Eli Mardock,
New Order,
K-Klass,
Monolake,
Mars,
Cheater Slicks,
Danielle Patucci,
Wings,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
Qualms,
Adolescents,
Cal Tjader,
Nirvana,
Rekid,
Make Up,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pierre Henry,
ABBA,
Reagan Youth,
Iggy Pop,
Metal Thangz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Whodini,
Grey Daturas,
The Moleskins,
Cameo,
Franke,
Pantytec,
Moss Icon,
Half Japanese,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
KRS-One,
The Cramps,
T. Rex,
Sarah Menescal,
Barrington Levy,
Liliput,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Infiniti,
the Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Toni Rubio,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joensuu 1685,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.