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 Costa Rica and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Judy Mowatt to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
Reuben Wilson,
Iggy Pop,
Barbara Tucker,
a-ha,
Basic Channel,
Al Stewart,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
Quadrant,
Organ,
Roxy Music,
Massinfluence,
Half Japanese,
Fugazi,
Severed Heads,
The Victims,
Mad Mike,
Sonic Youth,
Ronan,
Lyres,
Royal Trux,
Excepter,
Underground Resistance,
Warren Ellis,
Graham Central Station,
The Invisible,
Lucky Dragons,
The Stooges,
Agitation Free,
Bill Wells,
AZ,
Tears for Fears,
Skarface,
Tres Demented,
Pierre Henry,
Piero Umiliani,
Nation of Ulysses,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Angry Samoans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gichy Dan,
Crime,
Marmalade,
Agent Orange,
The Remains,
Magazine,
Gang of Four,
Fad Gadget,
Janne Schatter,
Interpol,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
In Retrospect,
Roy Ayers,
Amon Düül II,
the Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.