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 Swaziland and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Symarip to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ronan,
U.S. Maple,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Main Source,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fat Boys,
Tom Boy,
Infiniti,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cymande,
the Germs,
the Swans,
Aural Exciters,
Saccharine Trust,
Ten City,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dennis Brown,
Hoover,
Pierre Henry,
Brothers Johnson,
Soulsonic Force,
Warren Ellis,
Spoonie Gee,
Eddi Front,
The Cramps,
Bill Wells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hashim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tres Demented,
Patti Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick May,
Metal Thangz,
The Move,
James Chance & The Contortions,
ABC,
Amazonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rod Modell,
Davy DMX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Index,
The Grass Roots,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Accadde A,
The Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Glambeats Corp.,
Matthew Bourne,
Inner City,
Arcadia,
Lee Hazlewood,
Swans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kevin Saunderson,
kango's stein massive,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.