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 Denmark and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Deakin to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Associates,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Technova,
the Sonics,
Bootsy Collins,
Ice-T,
Harmonia,
Roxy Music,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Byrd,
the Soft Cell,
Joy Division,
Tomorrow,
Sight & Sound,
The Sound,
Sugar Minott,
Marmalade,
The Barracudas,
David McCallum,
Scratch Acid,
One Last Wish,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Sneak,
Basic Channel,
Interpol,
Pierre Henry,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Newcleus,
The Saints,
Television Personalities,
Brand Nubian,
Boz Scaggs,
The Busters,
Black Pus,
Aural Exciters,
Alison Limerick,
The Stooges,
Hasil Adkins,
Sixth Finger,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Sheep,
Scan 7,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cal Tjader,
Mad Mike,
Von Mondo,
Niagra,
Cheater Slicks,
The Dead C,
Ludus,
10cc,
Ponytail,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Golliwogs,
Sandy B,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.