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 Dominica and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Babytalk to the rock 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Supertramp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Slits,
Basic Channel,
Toni Rubio,
Althea and Donna,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pussy Galore,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Buzzcocks,
Bronski Beat,
Sex Pistols,
Tim Buckley,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jawbox,
Pantaleimon,
Livin' Joy,
Stetsasonic,
Brand Nubian,
Sarah Menescal,
Surgeon,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Near,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Real Kids,
In Retrospect,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Barry Ungar,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Holt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Soulsonic Force,
T.S.O.L.,
Dark Day,
Urselle,
Newcleus,
Eden Ahbez,
Mark Hollis,
Can,
The Victims,
Gerry Rafferty,
Piero Umiliani,
the Association,
Patti Smith,
Pole,
Joe Finger,
Arab on Radar,
Bill Wells,
Kaleidoscope,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fear,
Deadbeat,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.