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 Sri Lanka 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 punk 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Young Rascals,
Reagan Youth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The United States of America,
Half Japanese,
The Tremeloes,
Accadde A,
Eric Copeland,
The Toasters,
The Seeds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Janne Schatter,
Ken Boothe,
Yellowson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris Corsano,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rod Modell,
Robert Wyatt,
The Velvet Underground,
The Zeros,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visage,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slackers,
Scott Walker,
Aloha Tigers,
Moebius,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eddi Front,
Guru Guru,
Suburban Knight,
Tim Buckley,
Marmalade,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Al Stewart,
Moss Icon,
Rites of Spring,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lower 48,
Circle Jerks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mantronix,
Iggy Pop,
Country Teasers,
Jerry's Kids,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Bourne,
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vainqueur,
Connie Case,
Brick,
Blake Baxter,
Slave,
Fluxion,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.