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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Leonard Cohen to the jazz 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
One Last Wish,
Bobby Womack,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
X-101,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radio Birdman,
Nils Olav,
Yusef Lateef,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quadrant,
Interpol,
Chris & Cosey,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
New Order,
Johnny Osbourne,
Echospace,
Joyce Sims,
The Evens,
The American Breed,
Rhythm & Sound,
The J.B.'s,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobby Sherman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wings,
Oneida,
Wire,
The Divine Comedy,
Malaria!,
Scrapy,
Rosa Yemen,
E-Dancer,
Godley & Creme,
World's Most,
The Move,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
Anakelly,
Faraquet,
The Tremeloes,
The Residents,
La Düsseldorf,
Rapeman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Easy Going,
Slick Rick,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
June Days,
Janne Schatter,
Kas Product,
Man Eating Sloth,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.