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 Mali and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Stiv Bators to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Country Teasers,
The Young Rascals,
Fat Boys,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Busters,
Deepchord,
Rapeman,
Siglo XX,
Donny Hathaway,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
Rekid,
Lalann,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bad Manners,
Technova,
Scratch Acid,
Letta Mbulu,
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
Kenny Larkin,
Sparks,
The Trojans,
Urselle,
The Wake,
Davy DMX,
Soul II Soul,
The Music Machine,
This Heat,
48th St. Collective,
Trumans Water,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wings,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Five Americans,
Saccharine Trust,
Peter & Gordon,
Masters at Work,
Minnie Riperton,
Talk Talk,
The Grass Roots,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Stooges,
Mandrill,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lightning Bolt,
ABC,
Los Fastidios,
The Gladiators,
Babytalk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
James White and The Blacks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Warren Ellis,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.