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 Canada and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flash Fearless to the techno 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Bronski Beat,
K-Klass,
Albert Ayler,
Zero Boys,
Ponytail,
Derrick May,
Interpol,
The Names,
Peter and Kerry,
The Black Dice,
R.M.O.,
Joe Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
Erasure,
Fela Kuti,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fad Gadget,
Lyres,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rapeman,
The Leaves,
Steve Hackett,
Nirvana,
Loose Ends,
Nick Fraelich,
The Evens,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Supertramp,
Barbara Tucker,
Dennis Brown,
Reuben Wilson,
Intrusion,
Oneida,
Robert Hood,
Mandrill,
Funkadelic,
Sex Pistols,
Faraquet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Rufus Thomas,
Goldenarms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nik Kershaw,
Aaron Thompson,
Young Marble Giants,
Ituana,
Harpers Bizarre,
D'Angelo,
Ronan,
The Smoke,
Magazine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Suicide,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.