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 Belgium and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
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 guitar 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 The Moody Blues to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Archie Shepp,
The Smiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ohio Players,
Jawbox,
Mo-Dettes,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eli Mardock,
Mad Mike,
The New Christs,
Ultra Naté,
the Slits,
Boogie Down Productions,
Alison Limerick,
Bootsy Collins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Bananas,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
Scientists,
Circle Jerks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Girls At Our Best!,
Loose Ends,
Section 25,
Neu!,
Heaven 17,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bad Manners,
Yellowson,
The Fortunes,
Unwound,
Blossom Toes,
Cecil Taylor,
The Pretty Things,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
E-Dancer,
Robert Hood,
Funkadelic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rufus Thomas,
Organ,
Fluxion,
Erasure,
Swans,
Lower 48,
Amon Düül,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
kango's stein massive,
Fear,
Severed Heads,
Youth Brigade,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grey Daturas,
F. McDonald,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.