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 India and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '90s.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Mantronix,
Morten Harket,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sarah Menescal,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Angels of Light,
Brothers Johnson,
The Kinks,
The J.B.'s,
Isaac Hayes,
Delta 5,
Make Up,
Freddie Wadling,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nik Kershaw,
Royal Trux,
Negative Approach,
Jawbox,
Todd Rundgren,
Jesper Dahlback,
Angry Samoans,
Black Flag,
David McCallum,
Ice-T,
The Star Department,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Erykah Badu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wings,
Sight & Sound,
The Zeros,
Sam Rivers,
Livin' Joy,
Black Pus,
Amon Düül,
The Knickerbockers,
Skarface,
OOIOO,
Lindisfarne,
B.T. Express,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Newcleus,
Pierre Henry,
Rakim,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Rhythm & Sound,
Outsiders,
Y Pants,
Jacob Miller,
The Neon Judgement,
Jerry's Kids,
Flipper,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.