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 Andorra and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pantytec to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Pantaleimon,
Sound Behaviour,
Ken Boothe,
Slick Rick,
T.S.O.L.,
Fluxion,
The Neon Judgement,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rhythm & Sound,
OOIOO,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gap Band,
Ice-T,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Five Americans,
The Pretty Things,
The Blackbyrds,
Symarip,
Sarah Menescal,
Television Personalities,
China Crisis,
Alton Ellis,
Sight & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
The Birthday Party,
The Leaves,
The Remains,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Buzzcocks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Simply Red,
Harpers Bizarre,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gil Scott Heron,
ABC,
Sun Ra,
Peter & Gordon,
The Angels of Light,
Supertramp,
Black Sheep,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Starr,
Steve Hackett,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DJ Sneak,
KRS-One,
Ossler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
June Days,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Drexciya,
E-Dancer,
Mandrill,
Mr. Review,
Henry Cow,
James White and The Blacks,
Porter Ricks,
MC5,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.