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 Armenia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Warren Ellis to the crunk 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brothers Johnson,
Aloha Tigers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Unrelated Segments,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amon Düül II,
The Pop Group,
Con Funk Shun,
Liliput,
The Fuzztones,
Babytalk,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Normal,
Interpol,
Hasil Adkins,
Charles Mingus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Andrew Hill,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hashim,
Todd Terry,
Young Marble Giants,
Oneida,
Yaz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Organ,
Barry Ungar,
MC5,
Skaos,
The Litter,
Soul II Soul,
Radiohead,
Lyres,
Nation of Ulysses,
Q and Not U,
X-101,
Lou Reed,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Mills,
Joe Finger,
Robert Hood,
Mary Jane Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tubeway Army,
a-ha,
Swell Maps,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
The Moleskins,
Depeche Mode,
Byron Stingily,
The Cramps,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.