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 Chad and from Hong Kong.
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 Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Public Image Ltd. to the dance 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 Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Black Bananas,
Depeche Mode,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Toasters,
Tom Boy,
MDC,
The Stooges,
Cluster,
Niagra,
Lou Reed,
Lightning Bolt,
Schoolly D,
New Age Steppers,
The Associates,
Michelle Simonal,
Motorama,
Marc Almond,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mark Hollis,
John Lydon,
The Raincoats,
LL Cool J,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Bluetip,
Rekid,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Litter,
Jeff Lynne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blackbyrds,
Parry Music,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dawn Penn,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bob Dylan,
Buzzcocks,
The Barracudas,
Ultra Naté,
Juan Atkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Wire,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Idris Muhammad,
Mo-Dettes,
CMW,
Bobby Womack,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Birthday Party,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alton Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
48th St. Collective,
Visage,
Terrestrial Tones,
Man Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.