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 Nepal and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bauhaus to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Gong,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Smooth,
Cluster,
Cybotron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nirvana,
Wire,
The Smiths,
Morten Harket,
Pet Shop Boys,
Althea and Donna,
Junior Murvin,
Essential Logic,
La Düsseldorf,
Tubeway Army,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cal Tjader,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Easy Going,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Thompson Twins,
Brick,
The Neon Judgement,
Radio Birdman,
Index,
Josef K,
Banda Bassotti,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Girls At Our Best!,
Rapeman,
The American Breed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ten City,
The Grass Roots,
Bobby Womack,
Sam Rivers,
John Lydon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kayak,
B.T. Express,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Minnie Riperton,
Fat Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Procol Harum,
Leonard Cohen,
Desert Stars,
Aloha Tigers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Barbara Tucker,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.