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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the techno 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Prince Buster,
Public Enemy,
cv313,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
EPMD,
the Sonics,
Pantaleimon,
Funky Four + One,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jacques Brel,
Ituana,
Chris Corsano,
Echospace,
Monks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mad Mike,
Lou Christie,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The United States of America,
Fat Boys,
Half Japanese,
Crime,
Marine Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Carl Craig,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-102,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Outsiders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slits,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crispian St. Peters,
Severed Heads,
The Gories,
Circle Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
June of 44,
The Smoke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unwound,
Groovy Waters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
John Lydon,
Lower 48,
Bauhaus,
The Wake,
June Days,
Todd Rundgren,
Niagra,
Rosa Yemen,
Faust,
Make Up,
This Heat,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Last Poets,
Sugar Minott,
Bronski Beat,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.