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 Tunisia and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Invisible,
Harry Pussy,
the Association,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Wake,
Harmonia,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Knickerbockers,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
John Foxx,
Derrick May,
Roger Hodgson,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bang On A Can,
Kenny Larkin,
Bush Tetras,
Surgeon,
The Birthday Party,
Ossler,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jandek,
T. Rex,
Lindisfarne,
Jeff Lynne,
Tom Boy,
Adolescents,
Groovy Waters,
The Neon Judgement,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eddi Front,
Cal Tjader,
Erasure,
Bauhaus,
T.S.O.L.,
Wire,
Anakelly,
Byron Stingily,
Saccharine Trust,
Brothers Johnson,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.