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 Algeria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Brand Nubian to the rap 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Godley & Creme,
Man Parrish,
Barbara Tucker,
World's Most,
D'Angelo,
Pierre Henry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Human League,
Rosa Yemen,
JFA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suburban Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hashim,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cramps,
Hardrive,
Bobby Sherman,
the Association,
Graham Central Station,
Chrome,
David Bowie,
Sister Nancy,
Mad Mike,
Radiopuhelimet,
Clear Light,
The Invisible,
The Offenders,
The Litter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pussy Galore,
Crispian St. Peters,
Royal Trux,
Bang On A Can,
The Dirtbombs,
Radio Birdman,
Reagan Youth,
KRS-One,
Drexciya,
The Selecter,
Schoolly D,
Rapeman,
Fela Kuti,
Thee Headcoats,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spoonie Gee,
The Doors,
The Sonics,
Gong,
Girls At Our Best!,
Moebius,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Grass Roots,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.