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 Lesotho and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Godley & Creme to the grunge 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Audionom,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grauzone,
Rites of Spring,
Max Romeo,
Grey Daturas,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lakeside,
Peter & Gordon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Blossom Toes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Piero Umiliani,
Dennis Brown,
The Moleskins,
Jacob Miller,
Boz Scaggs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Standells,
the Association,
Aswad,
The Red Krayola,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alphaville,
Joey Negro,
Bang On A Can,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Holt,
Lucky Dragons,
Janne Schatter,
Pere Ubu,
The Trojans,
New York Dolls,
Skriet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
kango's stein massive,
Brick,
Adolescents,
Pantaleimon,
Mad Mike,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hashim,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Christie,
David Axelrod,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moody Blues,
Nico,
Mo-Dettes,
X-101,
Flash Fearless,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.