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 Kosovo and from London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Q and Not U to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Remains,
Heaven 17,
Public Enemy,
Pagans,
D'Angelo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Animal Collective,
Dark Day,
Circle Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
The Stooges,
a-ha,
Leonard Cohen,
Laurel Aitken,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Charles Mingus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deakin,
Sixth Finger,
Sparks,
Reagan Youth,
Excepter,
Jerry's Kids,
Loose Ends,
Glenn Branca,
Banda Bassotti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
In Retrospect,
Ultravox,
Motorama,
Nas,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Kinks,
David McCallum,
The Barracudas,
The Star Department,
One Last Wish,
The Modern Lovers,
Smog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
T. Rex,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Görl,
The Moody Blues,
X-Ray Spex,
Gang Starr,
The Seeds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lungfish,
Minor Threat,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.