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 Armenia and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Soul II Soul to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Offenders,
the Fania All-Stars,
Matthew Bourne,
Dead Boys,
Symarip,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ten City,
Chris Corsano,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Grauzone,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Flesh Eaters,
Electric Prunes,
Wasted Youth,
Scott Walker,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chrome,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alphaville,
Mandrill,
Crooked Eye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Japan,
The Kinks,
Stetsasonic,
Goldenarms,
Interpol,
Shoche,
Tears for Fears,
Kerri Chandler,
AZ,
Soft Cell,
Flipper,
Terrestrial Tones,
Youth Brigade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
UT,
Lucky Dragons,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jeff Lynne,
Scion,
Funky Four + One,
Country Teasers,
Sonic Youth,
Sam Rivers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Blossom Toes,
Eddi Front,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
KRS-One,
cv313,
Ossler,
Brand Nubian,
Swell Maps,
Archie Shepp,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.