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 Switzerland and from Copenhagen.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Traffic Nightmare to the grime 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Faust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lakeside,
The Blues Magoos,
Scrapy,
Bobby Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Accadde A,
Bootsy Collins,
Connie Case,
Gregory Isaacs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mad Mike,
The Walker Brothers,
The American Breed,
The Cramps,
Agitation Free,
The Gladiators,
X-102,
Japan,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
Todd Rundgren,
Public Enemy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Young Rascals,
Idris Muhammad,
Jandek,
Tubeway Army,
The Stooges,
Chris & Cosey,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roger Hodgson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Intrusion,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marshall Jefferson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Black Flag,
The Tremeloes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eddi Front,
The Cure,
Nas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Sheep,
Tim Buckley,
The Neon Judgement,
The Remains,
Fela Kuti,
Camouflage,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.