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 Philippines and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 rap 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
The J.B.'s,
Jeff Mills,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Star Department,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Massinfluence,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rufus Thomas,
Buzzcocks,
Sound Behaviour,
Robert Wyatt,
Brass Construction,
Erasure,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Al Stewart,
Magma,
K-Klass,
Unrelated Segments,
The Skatalites,
Interpol,
Moebius,
Drexciya,
Johnny Clarke,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Techniques,
Second Layer,
the Slits,
Q65,
Stereo Dub,
The Associates,
The Saints,
Soulsonic Force,
Rod Modell,
The Cure,
The Martian,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Easy Going,
The Smoke,
the Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Brothers Johnson,
The Walker Brothers,
Marmalade,
The Moleskins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cybotron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
John Holt,
Lebanon Hanover,
T. Rex,
Qualms,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fugs,
Blancmange,
Y Pants,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Velvet Underground,
X-Ray Spex,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.