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 Guinea-Bissau and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Roxy Music,
John Cale,
Andrew Hill,
James White and The Blacks,
Hoover,
Gang Green,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scion,
Bobby Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Ponytail,
The Skatalites,
The Trojans,
Parry Music,
Ultravox,
Derrick Morgan,
Glenn Branca,
Essential Logic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Teasers,
48th St. Collective,
Saccharine Trust,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Christie,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Womack,
Intrusion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fatback Band,
Juan Atkins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Selecter,
UT,
The Young Rascals,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Matthew Bourne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Reed,
Rekid,
Half Japanese,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Index,
Boogie Down Productions,
These Immortal Souls,
Make Up,
The Music Machine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rapeman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stereo Dub,
Icehouse,
Mo-Dettes,
Smog,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
MDC,
Slick Rick,
The Fortunes,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.