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 Paraguay and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Dirtbombs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q and Not U,
Derrick Morgan,
Leonard Cohen,
Sugar Minott,
Graham Central Station,
The Litter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
U.S. Maple,
Altered Images,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lungfish,
The Martian,
Bad Manners,
The Blackbyrds,
Stockholm Monsters,
Swans,
Mark Hollis,
Magma,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pierre Henry,
Erasure,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Pussy Galore,
Flamin' Groovies,
Interpol,
The Smiths,
The Evens,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
The Knickerbockers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amon Düül,
Mr. Review,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Unwound,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Hill,
Joey Negro,
Jandek,
R.M.O.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Buckinghams,
Idris Muhammad,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warsaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
Basic Channel,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.