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 Iran and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
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 güiro 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 Circle Jerks to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Suicide,
Wings,
Stiv Bators,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Dead C,
Hasil Adkins,
Patti Smith,
Todd Rundgren,
Gong,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
cv313,
Duran Duran,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
Throbbing Gristle,
Q and Not U,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Davy DMX,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fuzztones,
Rotary Connection,
Crash Course in Science,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed,
Deepchord,
Section 25,
Flash Fearless,
The Beau Brummels,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Dirtbombs,
Flipper,
Moss Icon,
Maleditus Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Tremeloes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Ten City,
Zapp,
Lindisfarne,
Newcleus,
Animal Collective,
Essential Logic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fela Kuti,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
Cameo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth 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.