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 Latvia 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deadbeat,
Nas,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Girls At Our Best!,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Roy Ayers,
Bad Manners,
Animal Collective,
The Music Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ponytail,
Rotary Connection,
Tubeway Army,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Oblivians,
Visage,
The Martian,
Agent Orange,
Scrapy,
Marmalade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Sun City Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Infiniti,
Terry Callier,
Echospace,
Black Moon,
Alton Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hardrive,
Excepter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dead Boys,
Inner City,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Bill Wells,
Toni Rubio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fire Engines,
Crash Course in Science,
Nils Olav,
MDC,
Jeff Lynne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blancmange,
48th St. Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.