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 Sweden and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Gang Green to the rock 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
The Index,
Amon Düül II,
Cymande,
Soul II Soul,
Al Stewart,
John Coltrane,
Josef K,
The Toasters,
Slick Rick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pulsallama,
Spoonie Gee,
Second Layer,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Severed Heads,
Tears for Fears,
Bill Wells,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Newcleus,
Malaria!,
Urselle,
Brass Construction,
Surgeon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camouflage,
Alice Coltrane,
Joe Finger,
DJ Sneak,
Echospace,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Patti Smith,
Panda Bear,
Symarip,
Marvin Gaye,
Sparks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
48th St. Collective,
Hot Snakes,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Raincoats,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jerry's Kids,
Lightning Bolt,
Donny Hathaway,
Yaz,
Moss Icon,
Vainqueur,
Icehouse,
Matthew Bourne,
The Golliwogs,
Suicide,
Nick Fraelich,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Youth Brigade,
The Divine Comedy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.