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 Georgia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jandek to the rock 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Easy Going,
Newcleus,
The Seeds,
a-ha,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Last Poets,
Section 25,
Monks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Amon Düül II,
Chrome,
David Bowie,
The Move,
Soulsonic Force,
Scrapy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boredoms,
Laurel Aitken,
The Black Dice,
Fat Boys,
The Toasters,
The Zeros,
The Count Five,
The Slackers,
Freddie Wadling,
X-102,
Fatback Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Velvet Underground,
X-Ray Spex,
Malaria!,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Pulsallama,
John Lydon,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick Morgan,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Scientists,
Cymande,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Red Krayola,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eve St. Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
The Gories,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fuzztones,
Excepter,
Absolute Body Control,
Gang Starr,
David McCallum,
Skaos,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacques Brel,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.