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 Seychelles and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Jandek to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Popol Vuh,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Warren Ellis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soul II Soul,
E-Dancer,
Television,
Sun City Girls,
Bauhaus,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Lydon,
JFA,
The United States of America,
Ultravox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dave Gahan,
The Real Kids,
Don Cherry,
Gang of Four,
Arthur Verocai,
Susan Cadogan,
Underground Resistance,
Pantytec,
Spandau Ballet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Walker Brothers,
the Association,
Model 500,
The Gap Band,
Youth Brigade,
David McCallum,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers,
Grey Daturas,
Peter & Gordon,
Tres Demented,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Absolute Body Control,
Lalann,
The Cramps,
Monks,
Gang Starr,
Ken Boothe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol,
The Gories,
Tomorrow,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.