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 Indonesia and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Jeru the Damaja to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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 Bar-Kays,
The Neon Judgement,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Smooth,
Wolf Eyes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kayak,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Sherman,
MC5,
Moebius,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pretty Things,
Traffic Nightmare,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalann,
Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
The Saints,
Mission of Burma,
Marc Almond,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jacques Brel,
Saccharine Trust,
The Misunderstood,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Cure,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
The Moody Blues,
Absolute Body Control,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Zeros,
This Heat,
Derrick Morgan,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Laurel Aitken,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Count Five,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The New Christs,
Urselle,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donny Hathaway,
the Germs,
The Mojo Men,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hashim,
Faust,
The Names,
Eddi Front,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.