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 Seychelles 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 clarinet 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 Wire to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Essential Logic,
David Bowie,
The Wake,
Joy Division,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brass Construction,
This Heat,
Jandek,
Alphaville,
The Sound,
Brothers Johnson,
Average White Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Khruangbin,
Hasil Adkins,
The Blues Magoos,
Henry Cow,
Guru Guru,
Cecil Taylor,
Shuggie Otis,
In Retrospect,
Minutemen,
Bronski Beat,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Raincoats,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Technova,
The Names,
Jerry's Kids,
The Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Eddi Front,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soulsonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
Visage,
Tim Buckley,
Crispian St. Peters,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Terry Callier,
Joe Finger,
the Germs,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Slave,
The Mojo Men,
The Zeros,
The Smiths,
the Slits,
Arcadia,
Black Moon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Q65,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Severed Heads,
Rapeman,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.