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 Liechtenstein and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 The Trojans 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Funkadelic,
Cybotron,
Suicide,
Country Teasers,
Howard Jones,
Moss Icon,
Ten City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
James White and The Blacks,
Neu!,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
The Moody Blues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kerri Chandler,
Flash Fearless,
Altered Images,
New Age Steppers,
X-102,
Eric B and Rakim,
China Crisis,
Sun Ra,
Spoonie Gee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Symarip,
Lou Christie,
Faust,
Robert Hood,
Minnie Riperton,
Subhumans,
Yellowson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David McCallum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Duran Duran,
The Smoke,
T.S.O.L.,
Newcleus,
The Smiths,
The Red Krayola,
Fear,
Liliput,
the Sonics,
Eli Mardock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter and Kerry,
Donald Byrd,
Colin Newman,
Public Enemy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mantronix,
Mo-Dettes,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Derrick May,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.