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 Austria and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 Marcia Griffiths to the grime 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes 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 spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Donald Byrd,
Black Pus,
The Mummies,
The Velvet Underground,
Minnie Riperton,
Crooked Eye,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rakim,
In Retrospect,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Swans,
Blancmange,
Main Source,
The J.B.'s,
Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Grey Daturas,
The Gories,
Ultravox,
David McCallum,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tears for Fears,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Panda Bear,
Wally Richardson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Connie Case,
The Monks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barbara Tucker,
Anakelly,
Loose Ends,
Isaac Hayes,
Nico,
Ultra Naté,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Amon Düül,
Camouflage,
Schoolly D,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Bar-Kays,
Bill Near,
Dark Day,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
The United States of America,
Sexual Harrassment,
Monks,
Laurel Aitken,
Joy Division,
Technova,
CMW,
Dennis Brown,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rosa Yemen,
Prince Buster,
Whodini,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.