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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Mumbai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mad Mike to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Peter and Kerry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Agent Orange,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
Bang On A Can,
Colin Newman,
Babytalk,
Ohio Players,
Skriet,
Pole,
Echospace,
The Dead C,
Main Source,
Mantronix,
Mark Hollis,
Fatback Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Ludus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sex Pistols,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deadbeat,
The Golliwogs,
The Move,
The Toasters,
Japan,
Ituana,
Thee Headcoats,
Panda Bear,
Lee Hazlewood,
Minutemen,
The Dirtbombs,
Fluxion,
Saccharine Trust,
A Certain Ratio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bill Wells,
Gang Starr,
Anakelly,
Man Eating Sloth,
Television,
Yusef Lateef,
Aloha Tigers,
the Bar-Kays,
Yazoo,
the Sonics,
Angry Samoans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Swans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pantytec,
Toni Rubio,
New Order,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Lungfish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lower 48,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.