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 Turkey and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Toasters to the jazz 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pagans,
Kayak,
Roy Ayers,
the Bar-Kays,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alphaville,
Erykah Badu,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gladiators,
The Associates,
Hashim,
Spoonie Gee,
Popol Vuh,
Eden Ahbez,
Siglo XX,
Minny Pops,
Cluster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Aloha Tigers,
The Grass Roots,
Bauhaus,
Newcleus,
Reagan Youth,
Wire,
The Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cymande,
The Zeros,
Stereo Dub,
Idris Muhammad,
Outsiders,
Ponytail,
Bill Wells,
Steve Hackett,
Stiv Bators,
Drive Like Jehu,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul II Soul,
Drexciya,
Scion,
Average White Band,
Aural Exciters,
Slick Rick,
Tubeway Army,
Susan Cadogan,
Leonard Cohen,
CMW,
Skarface,
The Raincoats,
Scrapy,
Marmalade,
Godley & Creme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ludus,
Black Moon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.