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 Cape Verde and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 güiro 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 Joy Division to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Echospace,
Pagans,
The New Christs,
Magazine,
Fatback Band,
The Star Department,
Basic Channel,
Cymande,
Interpol,
Liliput,
Lou Reed,
Half Japanese,
The Shadows of Knight,
10cc,
The Seeds,
Max Romeo,
Joyce Sims,
The Neon Judgement,
Rapeman,
The Kinks,
Symarip,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Average White Band,
The Black Dice,
Scan 7,
The Techniques,
Cluster,
T.S.O.L.,
Eli Mardock,
Warsaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Von Mondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Suburban Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Shoche,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Byrd,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Pretty Things,
Khruangbin,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
Shuggie Otis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Curtis Mayfield,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yellowson,
Mantronix,
Fela Kuti,
FM Einheit,
Big Daddy Kane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
The Monochrome Set,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.