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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lebanon Hanover to the disco 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels 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?
The Evens,
Harpers Bizarre,
Susan Cadogan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alice Coltrane,
Ten City,
The Fugs,
Goldenarms,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Young Rascals,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Siglo XX,
Q65,
Echospace,
Flipper,
Boz Scaggs,
Patti Smith,
Basic Channel,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Freddie Wadling,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Blake Baxter,
Eric Copeland,
Minny Pops,
The Index,
The Cure,
Yaz,
Vladislav Delay,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Bourne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roxy Music,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Stooges,
Qualms,
The Human League,
Whodini,
The Count Five,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brand Nubian,
Bluetip,
Index,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Au Pairs,
Organ,
The Knickerbockers,
Monks,
Ponytail,
Robert Wyatt,
L. Decosne,
ABBA,
Leonard Cohen,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.