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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the oboe 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 Electric Prunes to the grunge 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacques Brel,
Au Pairs,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Second Layer,
Siglo XX,
Robert Hood,
Scion,
Stiv Bators,
Moebius,
The Smoke,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
DJ Style,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dead Boys,
Ronan,
Adolescents,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Knickerbockers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Young Rascals,
Mantronix,
Josef K,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Ice-T,
The Beau Brummels,
Can,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ralphi Rosario,
Monolake,
Silicon Teens,
Neu!,
The Vogues,
Eden Ahbez,
Kayak,
John Lydon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jawbox,
Fela Kuti,
Yazoo,
Wasted Youth,
UT,
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
Peter & Gordon,
Dennis Brown,
Tres Demented,
Jacob Miller,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.