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 Barbados and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 Bob Dylan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-Ray Spex,
ABBA,
Susan Cadogan,
Minor Threat,
Sun City Girls,
The Gladiators,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Juan Atkins,
The Pretty Things,
Joe Smooth,
Cal Tjader,
B.T. Express,
June of 44,
the Sonics,
Unrelated Segments,
Sixth Finger,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scientists,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fall,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rufus Thomas,
Delon & Dalcan,
U.S. Maple,
The Martian,
Rakim,
The Doors,
The Trojans,
The Modern Lovers,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Age Steppers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deadbeat,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Derrick May,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Infiniti,
Bobby Sherman,
Monolake,
Blake Baxter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shuggie Otis,
Bill Near,
Little Man,
The Neon Judgement,
John Foxx,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Half Japanese,
The Searchers,
David Bowie,
The Stooges,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Görl,
The Skatalites,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gories,
Man Eating Sloth,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.