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 Italy and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Silicon Teens to the rock 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moleskins,
Kas Product,
Eve St. Jones,
The Last Poets,
Graham Central Station,
Blake Baxter,
Saccharine Trust,
DNA,
Wire,
Siglo XX,
Soulsonic Force,
PIL,
Basic Channel,
Junior Murvin,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeru the Damaja,
Chrome,
The Motions,
Alton Ellis,
Excepter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lindisfarne,
Laurel Aitken,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Monks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Flamin' Groovies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Juan Atkins,
Joey Negro,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skarface,
The Human League,
Wolf Eyes,
Flash Fearless,
Cal Tjader,
Gil Scott Heron,
Desert Stars,
Adolescents,
Thee Headcoats,
Scratch Acid,
The Fuzztones,
Isaac Hayes,
Marmalade,
Warren Ellis,
Sixth Finger,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Zero Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Loose Ends,
ABBA,
Scientists,
Magma,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Fraelich,
The Birthday Party,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.