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 Korea South and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 June Days to the disco 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Robert Görl,
Dennis Brown,
a-ha,
Adolescents,
Steve Hackett,
The Victims,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Royal Trux,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Moon,
Stiv Bators,
Eddi Front,
Average White Band,
Bush Tetras,
Chris & Cosey,
Babytalk,
Nas,
Jacques Brel,
Sun Ra,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Neon Judgement,
Delon & Dalcan,
China Crisis,
New Age Steppers,
Aswad,
Black Flag,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skaos,
Idris Muhammad,
Blancmange,
Swell Maps,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lebanon Hanover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boz Scaggs,
Fugazi,
Goldenarms,
Gichy Dan,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Terry,
Hoover,
Easy Going,
Sun City Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Marcia Griffiths,
Negative Approach,
The Young Rascals,
Desert Stars,
The Techniques,
The Raincoats,
The Happenings,
Barclay James Harvest,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Toni Rubio,
Marine Girls,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.