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 Oman and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Stooges to the dance 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Janne Schatter,
Heaven 17,
48th St. Collective,
The Gap Band,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Hood,
MC5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cowsills,
Marc Almond,
New Order,
EPMD,
Japan,
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-Ray Spex,
Parry Music,
Organ,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Panda Bear,
Moby Grape,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lucky Dragons,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cluster,
Jawbox,
Ronnie Foster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Donny Hathaway,
John Cale,
Technova,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wasted Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
The Moleskins,
Toni Rubio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Circle Jerks,
Grauzone,
Pagans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pulsallama,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Walker Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
the Association,
L. Decosne,
Television Personalities,
Loose Ends,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.