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 Gambia and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visage to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
The Fugs,
Minutemen,
Quando Quango,
Stetsasonic,
Moss Icon,
The Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Suburban Knight,
The Velvet Underground,
Youth Brigade,
Gong,
The Sonics,
The Invisible,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Beau Brummels,
Nik Kershaw,
Grauzone,
the Swans,
Sun City Girls,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Christie,
Surgeon,
Ultra Naté,
Ronan,
Moebius,
New Age Steppers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lakeside,
Kas Product,
The Gun Club,
John Holt,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fall,
Brick,
Supertramp,
The Leaves,
Radio Birdman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roger Hodgson,
Make Up,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Litter,
Maurizio,
The Monochrome Set,
Wire,
Skaos,
Porter Ricks,
The Grass Roots,
Flipper,
Joe Smooth,
X-Ray Spex,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Mills,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Easy Going,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Little Man,
The Divine Comedy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arthur Verocai,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.