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 Sri Lanka and from Sao Paulo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Alarm Clocks to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Lower 48,
X-Ray Spex,
Public Enemy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jacques Brel,
Kerri Chandler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Connie Case,
Moss Icon,
Rites of Spring,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barry Ungar,
Hardrive,
X-101,
Yaz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Warsaw,
The Associates,
Jawbox,
Flipper,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Motorama,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiopuhelimet,
Average White Band,
The Gun Club,
Mantronix,
DJ Style,
Skriet,
Johnny Clarke,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Shoche,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
The Smoke,
David McCallum,
Deakin,
Carl Craig,
In Retrospect,
Sun Ra,
Monolake,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Busters,
The Buckinghams,
Dawn Penn,
Aloha Tigers,
Kerrie Biddell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare,
Maurizio,
Rotary Connection,
The Slackers,
Ituana,
Don Cherry,
Black Sheep,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.