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 Paraguay 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Brick to the rock 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Organ,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kas Product,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fatback Band,
Main Source,
Susan Cadogan,
X-102,
Mantronix,
The Sonics,
LL Cool J,
L. Decosne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Barbara Tucker,
Dual Sessions,
Essential Logic,
Icehouse,
Harmonia,
Al Stewart,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Monochrome Set,
Radiohead,
Lucky Dragons,
Flipper,
Section 25,
Khruangbin,
Nils Olav,
Archie Shepp,
Massinfluence,
Fugazi,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cameo,
Kerri Chandler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bang On A Can,
Maurizio,
The Misunderstood,
the Swans,
Quadrant,
Amon Düül II,
Public Image Ltd.,
Procol Harum,
DNA,
The Saints,
K-Klass,
Thee Headcoats,
Motorama,
Kenny Larkin,
The Move,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skarface,
Soul II Soul,
James White and The Blacks,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.