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 Iraq 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Black Sheep to the techno 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Mojo Men,
The Slackers,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sound,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Derrick Morgan,
Crime,
Man Eating Sloth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mark Hollis,
Slave,
The Pretty Things,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roger Hodgson,
Niagra,
PIL,
The Dave Clark Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Masters at Work,
June of 44,
Zapp,
Tomorrow,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Searchers,
Soft Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joensuu 1685,
Marvin Gaye,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Simply Red,
Fear,
Procol Harum,
Swans,
AZ,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ossler,
The Monks,
Symarip,
Danielle Patucci,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry's Kids,
The Buckinghams,
The Cowsills,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Boredoms,
Peter & Gordon,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fat Boys,
Pantytec,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.