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 Belgium and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Reuben Wilson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronnie Foster,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Chris & Cosey,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott Heron,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Smog,
Altered Images,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Theoretical Girls,
Little Man,
The Residents,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
Cymande,
Eurythmics,
Basic Channel,
Dave Gahan,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erykah Badu,
Faust,
Soulsonic Force,
Eddi Front,
the Human League,
Don Cherry,
Tres Demented,
The Standells,
Mo-Dettes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Barracudas,
One Last Wish,
Buzzcocks,
Warsaw,
Ituana,
Clear Light,
Marine Girls,
Minor Threat,
Alphaville,
The Slits,
Roxy Music,
Yellowson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Au Pairs,
Siglo XX,
Monks,
OOIOO,
Index,
The Cramps,
Surgeon,
Scion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.