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 Kenya and from Spokane.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Nico to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Nick Fraelich,
Rosa Yemen,
Kerri Chandler,
Kas Product,
Robert Wyatt,
Moby Grape,
Matthew Halsall,
The Wake,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Steve Hackett,
Gabor Szabo,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Gong,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rotary Connection,
Bang On A Can,
Sarah Menescal,
Bad Manners,
The Busters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kaleidoscope,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Public Image Ltd.,
Reuben Wilson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Amon Düül II,
Marvin Gaye,
Unrelated Segments,
Man Eating Sloth,
Von Mondo,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Copeland,
New Age Steppers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dave Clark Five,
E-Dancer,
The Sound,
Ice-T,
Matthew Bourne,
Can,
Metal Thangz,
AZ,
Drexciya,
Con Funk Shun,
T.S.O.L.,
Lakeside,
The Searchers,
Freddie Wadling,
Kerrie Biddell,
DNA,
Blancmange,
Vainqueur,
The Walker Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Surgeon,
Archie Shepp,
The Saints,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.