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 Burkina and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the funk 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
the Human League,
Television Personalities,
The Five Americans,
cv313,
Bobby Sherman,
Fatback Band,
The Cramps,
Parry Music,
Bill Near,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Invisible,
Crispian St. Peters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
The Searchers,
The Young Rascals,
Radio Birdman,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Associates,
Kas Product,
Smog,
Crash Course in Science,
Graham Central Station,
Howard Jones,
Theoretical Girls,
Easy Going,
The United States of America,
Subhumans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Isaac Hayes,
Schoolly D,
Thee Headcoats,
Average White Band,
The American Breed,
Scratch Acid,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donald Byrd,
The Cure,
Sound Behaviour,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ultra Naté,
Nas,
The Misunderstood,
Zero Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Germs,
Gichy Dan,
Trumans Water,
Juan Atkins,
Ken Boothe,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
B.T. Express,
Erykah Badu,
The Toasters,
Laurel Aitken,
Delta 5,
Warsaw,
Neil Young,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Smoke,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.