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 Moldova and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amon Düül II to the rap 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Boredoms,
Cluster,
Section 25,
The Dave Clark Five,
New Age Steppers,
Icehouse,
Con Funk Shun,
Harmonia,
Eve St. Jones,
John Cale,
Godley & Creme,
Mo-Dettes,
Bootsy Collins,
Index,
Black Bananas,
Oneida,
Essential Logic,
Niagra,
Technova,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Five Americans,
The Tremeloes,
Tubeway Army,
Harry Pussy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ossler,
Derrick Morgan,
U.S. Maple,
Davy DMX,
Bauhaus,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fat Boys,
Grauzone,
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Charles Mingus,
The Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Von Mondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Camouflage,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Barracudas,
Surgeon,
Kas Product,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Maleditus Sound,
The Names,
Ornette Coleman,
Janne Schatter,
Excepter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.