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 Marshall Islands and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Martian to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Q65,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marine Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lucky Dragons,
The Raincoats,
Lakeside,
Mars,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
CMW,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scion,
Kas Product,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pere Ubu,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Pus,
ABC,
Robert Hood,
Bill Near,
Fluxion,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brick,
Altered Images,
Excepter,
The Victims,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Black Dice,
Sparks,
Buzzcocks,
The Slits,
John Cale,
Letta Mbulu,
Roger Hodgson,
Livin' Joy,
The Zeros,
Franke,
Marcia Griffiths,
Shuggie Otis,
Technova,
Matthew Halsall,
The Last Poets,
Pole,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Japan,
The Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Alphaville,
June Days,
The Cowsills,
Patti Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Holt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Massinfluence,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.