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 Ghana and from New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Trumans Water to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
Don Cherry,
Delta 5,
Funky Four + One,
Bad Manners,
Fad Gadget,
The Velvet Underground,
Shoche,
The Red Krayola,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pere Ubu,
Monks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Whodini,
Gang of Four,
New Age Steppers,
Q and Not U,
Fugazi,
Adolescents,
Kenny Larkin,
Television Personalities,
Nation of Ulysses,
Icehouse,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zapp,
Eric Copeland,
World's Most,
The Cramps,
Second Layer,
The Tremeloes,
Barry Ungar,
Lee Hazlewood,
Slave,
Liliput,
The Victims,
Nico,
Minny Pops,
The Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Procol Harum,
Joe Finger,
Derrick May,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
The Offenders,
Aloha Tigers,
The Star Department,
Electric Prunes,
John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Dirtbombs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Electric Prunes,
The Move,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eddi Front,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.