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 East Timor and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mary Jane Girls to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dead Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Royal Trux,
Guru Guru,
EPMD,
The Fugs,
Chrome,
Public Image Ltd.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nirvana,
Marine Girls,
Ice-T,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Leonard Cohen,
The Searchers,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Standells,
Pole,
48th St. Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerri Chandler,
Tommy Roe,
The Move,
John Lydon,
the Normal,
Jimmy McGriff,
Make Up,
Joyce Sims,
Patti Smith,
Desert Stars,
Yazoo,
Arcadia,
T. Rex,
The Fall,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Martian,
Alice Coltrane,
Tubeway Army,
Hasil Adkins,
Ohio Players,
Susan Cadogan,
Liliput,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Y Pants,
Subhumans,
Jawbox,
Television Personalities,
Juan Atkins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blake Baxter,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Evens,
Intrusion,
The Barracudas,
PIL,
Slave,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pulsallama,
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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.