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 Paraguay and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Suburban Knight to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q65,
The Gories,
Zero Boys,
The Red Krayola,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
Vainqueur,
The Remains,
Aural Exciters,
Reagan Youth,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
Camberwell Now,
Animal Collective,
Index,
Sixth Finger,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobby Byrd,
48th St. Collective,
The Zeros,
Junior Murvin,
Prince Buster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Smiths,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Pus,
Glambeats Corp.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
Sandy B,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Severed Heads,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sonics,
Babytalk,
The Beau Brummels,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quantec,
Gang Starr,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hashim,
Royal Trux,
Black Sheep,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Trojans,
Terry Callier,
Mission of Burma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Blancmange,
Siglo XX,
Lungfish,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.