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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator 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 Monks to the jazz 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer 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 chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
The Gories,
Thee Headcoats,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Inner City,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
E-Dancer,
Deadbeat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ice-T,
Ronnie Foster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quantec,
Lightning Bolt,
Blake Baxter,
Robert Görl,
Suicide,
Lou Christie,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The United States of America,
T. Rex,
Deepchord,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scratch Acid,
Liliput,
Eric Dolphy,
Archie Shepp,
Marvin Gaye,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül II,
The Golliwogs,
Ronan,
Vainqueur,
Joe Smooth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Flag,
Gang Green,
Average White Band,
Sex Pistols,
JFA,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
Arthur Verocai,
Josef K,
LL Cool J,
June of 44,
Bizarre Inc.,
DNA,
Alphaville,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Associates,
Oneida,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Franke,
the Normal,
Q65,
Sound Behaviour,
Fugazi,
Minnie Riperton,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.