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 Equatorial Guinea and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nico to the jazz 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pagans,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Busters,
the Slits,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Faraquet,
Absolute Body Control,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kaleidoscope,
Pantaleimon,
The Slits,
Joy Division,
Sister Nancy,
Goldenarms,
Underground Resistance,
Mad Mike,
World's Most,
Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Real Kids,
Brand Nubian,
Donald Byrd,
Terry Callier,
The Slackers,
Unwound,
Joyce Sims,
Quantec,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Surgeon,
The Misunderstood,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Dolphy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hashim,
The Toasters,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick Morgan,
Deakin,
Pet Shop Boys,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
Symarip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funkadelic,
the Germs,
the Human League,
The Gladiators,
Guru Guru,
The Selecter,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MDC,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.