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 Uzbekistan and from Halifax.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fatback Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Newcleus,
Barbara Tucker,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Velvet Underground,
Anakelly,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams,
Rakim,
The Human League,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Move,
The Victims,
Black Flag,
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Toni Rubio,
Panda Bear,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quantec,
Tears for Fears,
The Remains,
10cc,
Marc Almond,
Dead Boys,
The Smiths,
Brass Construction,
Ultravox,
Half Japanese,
Nico,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
Circle Jerks,
Moby Grape,
Howard Jones,
Jesper Dahlback,
Archie Shepp,
Letta Mbulu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sandy B,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
This Heat,
The Monochrome Set,
The Leaves,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Christie,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fugazi,
Maurizio,
Bronski Beat,
Malaria!,
The Sound,
The Smoke,
Pantytec,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.