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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 EPMD 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
H. Thieme,
World's Most,
Johnny Osbourne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Evens,
Frankie Knuckles,
8 Eyed Spy,
Junior Murvin,
Soft Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABC,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Reagan Youth,
Ponytail,
Black Flag,
Nik Kershaw,
Charles Mingus,
Hashim,
Sam Rivers,
John Holt,
The Selecter,
The Knickerbockers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fugazi,
Deepchord,
The Cure,
Morten Harket,
Schoolly D,
Ituana,
Dave Gahan,
The Mummies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terry Callier,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scan 7,
Colin Newman,
Byron Stingily,
The Star Department,
Moby Grape,
The Count Five,
Gang Green,
The Raincoats,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Tremeloes,
Franke,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
The Blues Magoos,
Albert Ayler,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sex Pistols,
Talk Talk,
Deadbeat,
The Invisible,
Black Pus,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.