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 Samoa and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Donald Fagen 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 Human League 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Avey Tare,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Germs,
Mission of Burma,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nirvana,
The Walker Brothers,
Anakelly,
Roxette,
Soft Cell,
Funkadelic,
Section 25,
Malaria!,
Robert Hood,
Theoretical Girls,
Lalann,
Fat Boys,
Groovy Waters,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
The Velvet Underground,
Scott Walker,
Danielle Patucci,
X-101,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Flag,
Trumans Water,
Amon Düül II,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Judy Mowatt,
Hashim,
Rhythm & Sound,
Agitation Free,
EPMD,
the Soft Cell,
Mr. Review,
Schoolly D,
The Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
The New Christs,
Michelle Simonal,
Bad Manners,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gun Club,
The Blues Magoos,
Pagans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.