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 Albania and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Television to the grime 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Thompson Twins,
Y Pants,
Josef K,
Donny Hathaway,
Kaleidoscope,
The Toasters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chrome,
The Doors,
Bobby Womack,
Yellowson,
The Wake,
The Pretty Things,
K-Klass,
Joyce Sims,
Lungfish,
Babytalk,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mummies,
Ice-T,
Slave,
Johnny Clarke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rekid,
Aloha Tigers,
Gabor Szabo,
Joe Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Parry Music,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Human League,
Susan Cadogan,
Ronan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swell Maps,
Chris Corsano,
Unwound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Matthew Halsall,
Severed Heads,
Au Pairs,
DJ Style,
Rotary Connection,
Bob Dylan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eli Mardock,
Brothers Johnson,
Excepter,
The Blues Magoos,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Association,
Sparks,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.