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 Taiwan and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonic Youth,
The Doors,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra,
The Red Krayola,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Divine Comedy,
John Cale,
Rapeman,
The Young Rascals,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rotary Connection,
Glenn Branca,
Eve St. Jones,
Joy Division,
L. Decosne,
CMW,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Aloha Tigers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Josef K,
Audionom,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mars,
Basic Channel,
Tim Buckley,
Alison Limerick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Danielle Patucci,
Byron Stingily,
Slick Rick,
Pet Shop Boys,
Derrick Morgan,
X-Ray Spex,
Von Mondo,
The Fuzztones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Victims,
Black Moon,
Camouflage,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ituana,
Shuggie Otis,
Hoover,
June Days,
Alton Ellis,
The American Breed,
Rosa Yemen,
Ice-T,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Bar-Kays,
The Zeros,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.