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 Macedonia and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Moleskins to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
cv313,
The Fall,
Newcleus,
Qualms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vladislav Delay,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fuzztones,
Radiohead,
ABC,
Ice-T,
Joe Smooth,
Outsiders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Golliwogs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Max Romeo,
The Moleskins,
Sarah Menescal,
Cluster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soft Machine,
Minutemen,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Image Ltd.,
Das Ding,
the Sonics,
Monolake,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brand Nubian,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Foxx,
R.M.O.,
Blancmange,
Quadrant,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Bowie,
The Techniques,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gong,
Excepter,
New York Dolls,
The Count Five,
Juan Atkins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
A Flock of Seagulls,
CMW,
Sight & Sound,
Rapeman,
Lucky Dragons,
The Durutti Column,
Rotary Connection,
The Young Rascals,
Sun City Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Remains,
Fela Kuti,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.