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 Austria and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Hardrive 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Alton Ellis,
Man Parrish,
the Sonics,
Chrome,
Stiv Bators,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wings,
cv313,
Don Cherry,
Heaven 17,
Soft Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Hashim,
The Toasters,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
The Gap Band,
Warren Ellis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brick,
Brothers Johnson,
Lyres,
Sex Pistols,
The New Christs,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Main Source,
The Happenings,
New Order,
Swell Maps,
Fluxion,
Al Stewart,
Colin Newman,
June Days,
Sunsets and Hearts,
F. McDonald,
The Pretty Things,
Country Joe & The Fish,
X-102,
Fat Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Germs,
Visage,
Skaos,
China Crisis,
The Raincoats,
Half Japanese,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marc Almond,
Warsaw,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dead Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Monolake,
Davy DMX,
Lou Christie,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.