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 Spain and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare 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 Ten City to the rock 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Martian,
Soulsonic Force,
Donny Hathaway,
Janne Schatter,
Ossler,
The Happenings,
New York Dolls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mission of Burma,
LL Cool J,
Jimmy McGriff,
Magma,
Theoretical Girls,
FM Einheit,
Eric Dolphy,
Sparks,
The Wake,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soul II Soul,
Freddie Wadling,
Section 25,
Eurythmics,
Bronski Beat,
Television,
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker,
The Birthday Party,
Pantytec,
The Monochrome Set,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kaleidoscope,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Womack,
The Walker Brothers,
The Pretty Things,
Con Funk Shun,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Flag,
Make Up,
Television Personalities,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Carl Craig,
Heaven 17,
Arab on Radar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Skaos,
the Bar-Kays,
Arcadia,
Grey Daturas,
The Index,
Fatback Band,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Osbourne,
Technova,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.