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 Syria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum 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 Lungfish to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
The Gories,
Radiohead,
Hardrive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Byron Stingily,
Babytalk,
Agitation Free,
The Angels of Light,
Flash Fearless,
The Litter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Suburban Knight,
Bang On A Can,
The Vogues,
R.M.O.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rakim,
Prince Buster,
Sound Behaviour,
The Grass Roots,
The Martian,
Neil Young,
Peter & Gordon,
Banda Bassotti,
LL Cool J,
Joy Division,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quadrant,
Ice-T,
New York Dolls,
The Blackbyrds,
Duran Duran,
B.T. Express,
The Tremeloes,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger,
One Last Wish,
Eric Copeland,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Yaz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jimmy McGriff,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fugs,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Morten Harket,
Khruangbin,
Index,
Los Fastidios,
Jawbox,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
H. Thieme,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minutemen,
Brass Construction,
Joe Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.