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 Colombia and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Lou Reed 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 Lalann to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman 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 a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Wolf Eyes,
Harry Pussy,
Television,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Organ,
Schoolly D,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scrapy,
Goldenarms,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
Dorothy Ashby,
Von Mondo,
John Foxx,
Average White Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New York Dolls,
Magazine,
Panda Bear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Cure,
Scientists,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
World's Most,
The Count Five,
Black Flag,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Laurel Aitken,
The Electric Prunes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Last Poets,
Altered Images,
Q and Not U,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fire Engines,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Remains,
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minor Threat,
Deepchord,
John Cale,
Bush Tetras,
Niagra,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barry Ungar,
Max Romeo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lower 48,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang Starr,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.