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 Hungary and from Houston.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 ABC to the grime 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Quadrant,
The Human League,
PIL,
Shuggie Otis,
Faraquet,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Hill,
Eurythmics,
Leonard Cohen,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Swans,
Don Cherry,
Altered Images,
Absolute Body Control,
Tim Buckley,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Motions,
Bad Manners,
the Slits,
Sonny Sharrock,
Spoonie Gee,
The Happenings,
UT,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Christie,
R.M.O.,
Vainqueur,
Todd Rundgren,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The American Breed,
The Star Department,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fortunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Matthew Bourne,
B.T. Express,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joensuu 1685,
Brick,
U.S. Maple,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
June of 44,
The Stooges,
Stiv Bators,
Bob Dylan,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.