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 Thailand and from Paris.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Anakelly to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Depeche Mode,
Heaven 17,
Graham Central Station,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ronnie Foster,
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ten City,
Pere Ubu,
Aloha Tigers,
Marine Girls,
The Index,
Delta 5,
Hashim,
Grey Daturas,
Eddi Front,
John Cale,
the Germs,
Essential Logic,
Blossom Toes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Parry Music,
The Remains,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ohio Players,
Chris & Cosey,
Byron Stingily,
Maleditus Sound,
Shoche,
The Selecter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Funky Four + One,
China Crisis,
The Moleskins,
The Fortunes,
Theoretical Girls,
The Stooges,
Scan 7,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Kas Product,
Unrelated Segments,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Livin' Joy,
Maurizio,
Cameo,
Arthur Verocai,
The Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Human League,
Cymande,
The Fugs,
the Association,
The Five Americans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pussy Galore,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.