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 Mexico and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Jandek,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
World's Most,
Lightning Bolt,
Supertramp,
Nico,
The Mojo Men,
Jacob Miller,
The Standells,
Little Man,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Index,
Sight & Sound,
X-102,
Peter and Kerry,
Smog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Laurel Aitken,
Bob Dylan,
Graham Central Station,
The Cramps,
the Germs,
The Five Americans,
Qualms,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marc Almond,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Make Up,
Traffic Nightmare,
Derrick May,
Boogie Down Productions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Human League,
The Gladiators,
Eric B and Rakim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marvin Gaye,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ten City,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Raincoats,
Pole,
Suburban Knight,
Simply Red,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sixth Finger,
Junior Murvin,
June of 44,
Jimmy McGriff,
Metal Thangz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.