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 Kosovo and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Gap Band to the disco 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
CMW,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Guru Guru,
Vainqueur,
The Moody Blues,
Dead Boys,
Wings,
Ultra Naté,
Crooked Eye,
Lalann,
Cluster,
Todd Rundgren,
Tears for Fears,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Vogues,
Mars,
Suburban Knight,
Drexciya,
Lindisfarne,
Eddi Front,
Delta 5,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marvin Gaye,
Visage,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sight & Sound,
X-Ray Spex,
Khruangbin,
Swell Maps,
Roxette,
The Five Americans,
The Knickerbockers,
The Human League,
Sex Pistols,
Dorothy Ashby,
Terrestrial Tones,
Erasure,
Man Parrish,
Don Cherry,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Cale,
Alphaville,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vladislav Delay,
The Moleskins,
The Buckinghams,
These Immortal Souls,
Grey Daturas,
A Certain Ratio,
Wire,
The Gap Band,
Outsiders,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jawbox,
Gabor Szabo,
T. Rex,
Bobby Womack,
Massinfluence,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.