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 Kazakhstan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Al Stewart to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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 Residents,
Bobby Byrd,
Jesper Dahlback,
B.T. Express,
The Cowsills,
The Leaves,
Crash Course in Science,
Minor Threat,
The Misunderstood,
Model 500,
Arcadia,
The Fuzztones,
Jacques Brel,
Stereo Dub,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Thee Headcoats,
The Pop Group,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
U.S. Maple,
The Wake,
Half Japanese,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Second Layer,
Panda Bear,
Fat Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Rakim,
T.S.O.L.,
Danielle Patucci,
Parry Music,
Johnny Clarke,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Urselle,
Sällskapet,
The Index,
Charles Mingus,
Girls At Our Best!,
Little Man,
Vladislav Delay,
The Walker Brothers,
John Coltrane,
X-Ray Spex,
kango's stein massive,
Cymande,
the Sonics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Cluster,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeff Mills,
Grauzone,
Basic Channel,
Eli Mardock,
The Monochrome Set,
Slick Rick,
Aloha Tigers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Black Dice,
Ronnie Foster,
This Heat,
Interpol,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.