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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar 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 Scratch Acid to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Teasers,
X-102,
Nirvana,
Tim Buckley,
the Normal,
Saccharine Trust,
Nils Olav,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Busters,
Funkadelic,
Danielle Patucci,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
Excepter,
Johnny Clarke,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Subhumans,
The Birthday Party,
Fear,
The Names,
Cluster,
Yazoo,
Mr. Review,
Amazonics,
Q65,
Hasil Adkins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Warren Ellis,
The Grass Roots,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liliput,
Lakeside,
Vainqueur,
The Kinks,
Rotary Connection,
UT,
Fluxion,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
CMW,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tommy Roe,
June of 44,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Victims,
Gil Scott Heron,
Al Stewart,
Bootsy Collins,
Alton Ellis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Smoke,
The Fortunes,
Basic Channel,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.