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 Tunisia and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Derrick Morgan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Animal Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deakin,
The Durutti Column,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hasil Adkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Soft Cell,
La Düsseldorf,
Ludus,
Tom Boy,
X-101,
Mary Jane Girls,
Morten Harket,
Trumans Water,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crime,
Angry Samoans,
Jawbox,
DJ Style,
Peter and Kerry,
Donald Byrd,
The Mojo Men,
The Names,
Ken Boothe,
The Monochrome Set,
Cameo,
Saccharine Trust,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scan 7,
Swans,
Maleditus Sound,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pop Group,
Steve Hackett,
OOIOO,
Matthew Bourne,
Vainqueur,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camouflage,
The Red Krayola,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joensuu 1685,
Television,
Janne Schatter,
Johnny Clarke,
Ralphi Rosario,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerri Chandler,
Prince Buster,
Soft Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Toni Rubio,
Lower 48,
Loose Ends,
Supertramp,
Fluxion,
Warren Ellis,
Soulsonic Force,
Procol Harum,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Q65,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.