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 India and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mary Jane Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
Depeche Mode,
Magazine,
David Axelrod,
Television,
Kas Product,
Andrew Hill,
Lebanon Hanover,
Man Parrish,
Joe Finger,
Excepter,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Martian,
K-Klass,
the Association,
The Young Rascals,
Eurythmics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eddi Front,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-102,
The Searchers,
Drexciya,
A Certain Ratio,
Wings,
The Selecter,
Jerry's Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Buzzcocks,
Piero Umiliani,
Swell Maps,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bauhaus,
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
the Normal,
Rapeman,
Camouflage,
Ossler,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
Icehouse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Tremeloes,
Tim Buckley,
The Real Kids,
Fear,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Holt,
T. Rex,
Make Up,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
Von Mondo,
The Remains,
The Fall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.