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 Papua New Guinea and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lebanon Hanover to the disco 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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Soul II Soul,
The Alarm Clocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Theoretical Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Newcleus,
Severed Heads,
Nico,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Loose Ends,
Eli Mardock,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Steve Hackett,
LL Cool J,
Freddie Wadling,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Smog,
Urselle,
La Düsseldorf,
Brass Construction,
Adolescents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
X-Ray Spex,
Television,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Electric Prunes,
Pere Ubu,
Yazoo,
Agent Orange,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mission of Burma,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skaos,
MC5,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hot Snakes,
Surgeon,
Delta 5,
Kayak,
Yellowson,
Rekid,
Monks,
Tears for Fears,
The Count Five,
The Toasters,
Mark Hollis,
Index,
The Detroit Cobras,
Faraquet,
Eric B and Rakim,
Icehouse,
Procol Harum,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.