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 Pakistan and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 New York Dolls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Janne Schatter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Half Japanese,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Freddie Wadling,
The Motions,
Q65,
Gong,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Infiniti,
Sonny Sharrock,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Clear Light,
FM Einheit,
The Knickerbockers,
Quantec,
U.S. Maple,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Starr,
Ultravox,
The Leaves,
The Dave Clark Five,
Loose Ends,
Ponytail,
LL Cool J,
The Raincoats,
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Agitation Free,
The Cramps,
Sight & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Amazonics,
World's Most,
Von Mondo,
Lou Christie,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
The Walker Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Qualms,
Niagra,
Jimmy McGriff,
Duran Duran,
Sparks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skarface,
The Pop Group,
Alison Limerick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.