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 Germany and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Arcadia to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
The Modern Lovers,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Gong,
Ultimate Spinach,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lalann,
The Fortunes,
Max Romeo,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Section 25,
Amazonics,
Icehouse,
Neu!,
The Divine Comedy,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Lynne,
Ronnie Foster,
CMW,
Shuggie Otis,
Terry Callier,
Robert Wyatt,
Basic Channel,
Jeff Mills,
E-Dancer,
Groovy Waters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crooked Eye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gregory Isaacs,
X-102,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pantytec,
The Five Americans,
Vainqueur,
Echospace,
The Kinks,
Black Flag,
The Moleskins,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Barracudas,
Qualms,
Pierre Henry,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oneida,
T. Rex,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
John Holt,
New York Dolls,
The Tremeloes,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.