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 Eritrea and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Sexual Harrassment to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Soft Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Scion,
Cheater Slicks,
Hardrive,
Essential Logic,
Darondo,
The Music Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Electric Prunes,
Kas Product,
Infiniti,
Skarface,
Rod Modell,
OOIOO,
Rites of Spring,
Fugazi,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Oblivians,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Althea and Donna,
the Association,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Raincoats,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
Electric Light Orchestra,
10cc,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fear,
Lakeside,
The Knickerbockers,
Lungfish,
8 Eyed Spy,
ABBA,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Germs,
Wire,
X-102,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moss Icon,
David McCallum,
Ituana,
Lebanon Hanover,
UT,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Standells,
Scan 7,
Stiv Bators,
Duran Duran,
Gang Gang Dance,
Negative Approach,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magma,
Eric Dolphy,
China Crisis,
Chris & Cosey,
E-Dancer,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.