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 Italy and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jimmy McGriff to the electroclash 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Malaria!,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Soft Cell,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reagan Youth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nirvana,
Barrington Levy,
the Swans,
World's Most,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Green,
Vainqueur,
Erasure,
The Grass Roots,
Duran Duran,
The Young Rascals,
Rufus Thomas,
Josef K,
The Gladiators,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids,
The Zeros,
The Moleskins,
Basic Channel,
Accadde A,
Warren Ellis,
a-ha,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Agitation Free,
The J.B.'s,
The Gap Band,
Soulsonic Force,
B.T. Express,
Franke,
Can,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ohio Players,
Althea and Donna,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
Groovy Waters,
Interpol,
Joe Smooth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Skarface,
The Martian,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.