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 Madagascar and from Glasgow.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mark Hollis,
Supertramp,
Japan,
Maleditus Sound,
MDC,
Todd Terry,
World's Most,
Sound Behaviour,
Lyres,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wally Richardson,
Black Sheep,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zero Boys,
Rakim,
Franke,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fall,
The Last Poets,
John Coltrane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scientists,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blossom Toes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Barclay James Harvest,
Darondo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Morten Harket,
Vainqueur,
Bad Manners,
Lucky Dragons,
MC5,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Television Personalities,
David McCallum,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Procol Harum,
The Dirtbombs,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
Warren Ellis,
The Blues Magoos,
Radio Birdman,
Stereo Dub,
Wasted Youth,
Bluetip,
Little Man,
Electric Prunes,
Boredoms,
Talk Talk,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skriet,
Cluster,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.