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 Monaco and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ronan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Stiv Bators,
Buzzcocks,
Excepter,
Television Personalities,
The Barracudas,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gladiators,
Adolescents,
Massinfluence,
the Normal,
Arcadia,
Ice-T,
Severed Heads,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Symarip,
Terry Callier,
The Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lower 48,
Ohio Players,
KRS-One,
The United States of America,
Archie Shepp,
Trumans Water,
Sister Nancy,
The Fugs,
AZ,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
Q and Not U,
A Certain Ratio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ponytail,
Marine Girls,
Monks,
Godley & Creme,
The Remains,
Grauzone,
Gil Scott Heron,
Derrick Morgan,
Sugar Minott,
David Axelrod,
Sällskapet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zapp,
Pole,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Radiopuhelimet,
Average White Band,
Skaos,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Susan Cadogan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vladislav Delay,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.