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 Guinea-Bissau and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
10cc,
Todd Rundgren,
Danielle Patucci,
Camberwell Now,
Livin' Joy,
The Barracudas,
The Cramps,
Bluetip,
The Invisible,
Leonard Cohen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Moleskins,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
Monolake,
Liliput,
Pussy Galore,
Los Fastidios,
Soul II Soul,
The Gories,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
X-Ray Spex,
Dave Gahan,
The Index,
Robert Wyatt,
Little Man,
Pagans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Monks,
Ultimate Spinach,
KRS-One,
48th St. Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
a-ha,
Icehouse,
Black Sheep,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aaron Thompson,
Maurizio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Technova,
Tears for Fears,
Aswad,
Isaac Hayes,
the Human League,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.