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 Monaco and from Johannesburg.
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 Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Derrick May,
Anakelly,
Underground Resistance,
Cluster,
Goldenarms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-101,
Yellowson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scratch Acid,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobby Sherman,
Dual Sessions,
Junior Murvin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
The Golliwogs,
Joensuu 1685,
La Düsseldorf,
Gabor Szabo,
Ronnie Foster,
Yusef Lateef,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Associates,
Brand Nubian,
Interpol,
Blossom Toes,
Television,
Mars,
Arthur Verocai,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bob Dylan,
Cecil Taylor,
Masters at Work,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roger Hodgson,
Trumans Water,
The Tremeloes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DNA,
Echospace,
Can,
Gang Gang Dance,
Boz Scaggs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ponytail,
The Shadows of Knight,
Spandau Ballet,
Nico,
Swell Maps,
Minny Pops,
Graham Central Station,
The Five Americans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.