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 Iraq and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Can to the dance 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mandrill,
Ultra Naté,
Fatback Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Davy DMX,
The Cowsills,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Interpol,
The Invisible,
Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sister Nancy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crispian St. Peters,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Das Ding,
Sexual Harrassment,
Parry Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brick,
John Coltrane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Echospace,
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
DNA,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric Copeland,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Howard Jones,
Rufus Thomas,
The Vogues,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Martian,
Bobby Sherman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Severed Heads,
Cal Tjader,
Piero Umiliani,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nirvana,
Joe Finger,
The Associates,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
D'Angelo,
Tomorrow,
Bronski Beat,
Q65,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wings,
MDC,
Robert Wyatt,
Youth Brigade,
Minor Threat,
Eurythmics,
The Litter,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.