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 Mali and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flash Fearless to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mandrill,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
D'Angelo,
Kerri Chandler,
Altered Images,
Eric B and Rakim,
Shuggie Otis,
Buzzcocks,
The Barracudas,
Pulsallama,
Sam Rivers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Avey Tare,
Make Up,
The Saints,
Schoolly D,
Todd Terry,
Sällskapet,
Amazonics,
Underground Resistance,
Terry Callier,
Niagra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sight & Sound,
Gong,
The Selecter,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
Technova,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Smiths,
June Days,
Gerry Rafferty,
FM Einheit,
Cluster,
Jacob Miller,
Theoretical Girls,
Royal Trux,
Marmalade,
Neil Young,
Vladislav Delay,
Gichy Dan,
Duran Duran,
cv313,
The Kinks,
Khruangbin,
Junior Murvin,
The Blues Magoos,
The Offenders,
10cc,
Arab on Radar,
The Angels of Light,
Marc Almond,
Qualms,
Leonard Cohen,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.