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 Ecuador and from Glasgow.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sister Nancy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tim Buckley,
Malaria!,
Eric Copeland,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pole,
The Grass Roots,
The Doors,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jawbox,
Barclay James Harvest,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Outsiders,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Erasure,
Mars,
Gang of Four,
Ludus,
Public Enemy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cowsills,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lou Christie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flamin' Groovies,
Metal Thangz,
The Remains,
Rites of Spring,
Nils Olav,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nas,
Kurtis Blow,
Archie Shepp,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ronnie Foster,
Rosa Yemen,
Janne Schatter,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
The Five Americans,
Theoretical Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
The Zeros,
Tomorrow,
Stetsasonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Los Fastidios,
Goldenarms,
The Dirtbombs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Procol Harum,
The Monochrome Set,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.