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 Mexico 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Lydon to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Newcleus,
JFA,
Funky Four + One,
Don Cherry,
DJ Style,
Royal Trux,
Drexciya,
Television,
Negative Approach,
Television Personalities,
Rod Modell,
Lyres,
Pantytec,
F. McDonald,
D'Angelo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The United States of America,
a-ha,
Bush Tetras,
Tommy Roe,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scan 7,
Oneida,
The Techniques,
Harry Pussy,
Sight & Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
MC5,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Swans,
Liliput,
Rites of Spring,
Lucky Dragons,
Excepter,
Slave,
Brass Construction,
Dual Sessions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barry Ungar,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric Dolphy,
K-Klass,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flash Fearless,
Colin Newman,
Gichy Dan,
Little Man,
Cameo,
Flipper,
Supertramp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Panda Bear,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.