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 Barbados and from Bologna.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cowsills to the rap 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brick,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Move,
The Five Americans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Con Funk Shun,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q and Not U,
Panda Bear,
Alphaville,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sonny Sharrock,
Porter Ricks,
The Fuzztones,
Chris & Cosey,
Half Japanese,
Sarah Menescal,
Main Source,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Womack,
The Associates,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Von Mondo,
Ronnie Foster,
Andrew Hill,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aural Exciters,
Eden Ahbez,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash,
Saccharine Trust,
UT,
Lucky Dragons,
Surgeon,
X-101,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wally Richardson,
Sound Behaviour,
The Index,
The Cure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Khruangbin,
Don Cherry,
Graham Central Station,
June Days,
Fear,
Pagans,
Chrome,
Sun Ra,
H. Thieme,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Accadde A,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.