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 Taiwan and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the dance 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Index,
The Gun Club,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker,
Nas,
Japan,
Janne Schatter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Faust,
Deadbeat,
In Retrospect,
Gang of Four,
Drive Like Jehu,
Depeche Mode,
Suicide,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warren Ellis,
Kurtis Blow,
Aural Exciters,
48th St. Collective,
Fluxion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bronski Beat,
the Human League,
The Vogues,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-102,
Cecil Taylor,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
Slick Rick,
Masters at Work,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Neon Judgement,
Alton Ellis,
Faraquet,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Offenders,
The Fire Engines,
Nick Fraelich,
Vladislav Delay,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blossom Toes,
Pole,
The Red Krayola,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Howard Jones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Black Dice,
Peter and Kerry,
Can,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
kango's stein massive,
Judy Mowatt,
Joy Division,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.