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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barry Ungar to the punk 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Bourne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
La Düsseldorf,
The Saints,
Severed Heads,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Quadrant,
Accadde A,
Tres Demented,
Roxette,
Fela Kuti,
The Angels of Light,
Glenn Branca,
The Associates,
Grey Daturas,
Deadbeat,
Todd Terry,
Alison Limerick,
Lightning Bolt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Bush Tetras,
Au Pairs,
Johnny Clarke,
Flipper,
UT,
Mandrill,
the Soft Cell,
The Leaves,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fortunes,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bad Manners,
Index,
Clear Light,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Spandau Ballet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Yaz,
Suicide,
X-101,
Sandy B,
Isaac Hayes,
Erasure,
Porter Ricks,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed,
Stereo Dub,
the Bar-Kays,
Alphaville,
Soft Cell,
Cecil Taylor,
The Blues Magoos,
Babytalk,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.