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 Chad and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Hashim to the rock 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Dawn Penn,
Roy Ayers,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
Porter Ricks,
The Kinks,
Shoche,
The Mummies,
Technova,
Trumans Water,
Television,
The Sound,
The Happenings,
Jandek,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Icehouse,
Piero Umiliani,
Frankie Knuckles,
Spandau Ballet,
Au Pairs,
Hardrive,
Pole,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Victims,
Blossom Toes,
Alphaville,
E-Dancer,
Hot Snakes,
CMW,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
LL Cool J,
Barry Ungar,
The Music Machine,
Dave Gahan,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
OOIOO,
John Lydon,
Country Teasers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lucky Dragons,
Vainqueur,
the Normal,
Judy Mowatt,
Stockholm Monsters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Sherman,
Brand Nubian,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
U.S. Maple,
Chrome,
Nick Fraelich,
KRS-One,
The Smoke,
The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters.
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.