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 Finland and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro 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 Deadbeat to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crash Course in Science,
The Velvet Underground,
Marcia Griffiths,
T.S.O.L.,
F. McDonald,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Iggy Pop,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pulsallama,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Con Funk Shun,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Görl,
Scientists,
The Moody Blues,
China Crisis,
The Litter,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Leaves,
Drive Like Jehu,
Half Japanese,
Crime,
Boredoms,
Throbbing Gristle,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Wally Richardson,
The Fire Engines,
Eurythmics,
Hot Snakes,
The Gories,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rites of Spring,
Aswad,
Vainqueur,
Essential Logic,
Ponytail,
Angry Samoans,
The Real Kids,
Second Layer,
Wings,
Faraquet,
The Blues Magoos,
Dual Sessions,
D'Angelo,
Urselle,
Davy DMX,
Dawn Penn,
Metal Thangz,
Piero Umiliani,
JFA,
The Victims,
The Human League,
Joyce Sims,
Rakim,
Robert Wyatt,
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
Albert Ayler,
Nirvana,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.