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 Eritrea and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Connie Case to the electroclash 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Maurizio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Sheep,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aural Exciters,
The Moleskins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Sound,
David Bowie,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sun Ra,
Boz Scaggs,
Patti Smith,
ABC,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kaleidoscope,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Womack,
Rosa Yemen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Holt,
The Raincoats,
Lower 48,
Mandrill,
The Durutti Column,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Stetsasonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Buzzcocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Human League,
Yellowson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dark Day,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Loose Ends,
Eurythmics,
Ossler,
Technova,
The Busters,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.