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 Panama 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 In Retrospect to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sister Nancy,
The Kinks,
CMW,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Silicon Teens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Godley & Creme,
Magma,
Carl Craig,
Hoover,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Coltrane,
The Last Poets,
Groovy Waters,
Bang On A Can,
The Fortunes,
Susan Cadogan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scratch Acid,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fluxion,
Excepter,
Inner City,
The Five Americans,
Average White Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
Little Man,
Nik Kershaw,
Marc Almond,
KRS-One,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Funkadelic,
Black Moon,
The Divine Comedy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Bar-Kays,
Hasil Adkins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Moss Icon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Agitation Free,
MC5,
Idris Muhammad,
Hot Snakes,
Quando Quango,
New York Dolls,
Black Flag,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.