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 Guatemala and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Dark Day to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
La Düsseldorf,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Anthony Braxton,
The Divine Comedy,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eden Ahbez,
a-ha,
The Smiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gichy Dan,
Yaz,
World's Most,
Second Layer,
The Buckinghams,
Supertramp,
kango's stein massive,
FM Einheit,
Half Japanese,
Toni Rubio,
Eli Mardock,
OOIOO,
Mandrill,
Vladislav Delay,
The Mummies,
Arab on Radar,
Kool Moe Dee,
Liliput,
Blancmange,
Silicon Teens,
Rod Modell,
KRS-One,
Depeche Mode,
Avey Tare,
The Dirtbombs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Animal Collective,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Move,
ABC,
Panda Bear,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Rotary Connection,
June of 44,
Chrome,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Searchers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erasure,
The Real Kids,
Cybotron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.