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 Luxembourg and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 U.S. Maple to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead 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?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joey Negro,
In Retrospect,
Flash Fearless,
Pere Ubu,
Icehouse,
MDC,
LL Cool J,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mark Hollis,
Pulsallama,
Rotary Connection,
Patti Smith,
Colin Newman,
Neu!,
Sparks,
The Fugs,
Lalann,
Idris Muhammad,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare,
K-Klass,
Deakin,
The United States of America,
The Monochrome Set,
Boredoms,
Kaleidoscope,
Lyres,
Amon Düül II,
Crooked Eye,
Charles Mingus,
Unwound,
Nirvana,
Maleditus Sound,
Can,
Darondo,
Kurtis Blow,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visage,
Scrapy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jawbox,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zero Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
R.M.O.,
Iggy Pop,
Wings,
Deadbeat,
Whodini,
Brass Construction,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Smoke,
Schoolly D,
The Sonics,
John Foxx,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.