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 San Marino and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the techno 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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Bourne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Severed Heads,
The Trojans,
Fad Gadget,
Cluster,
Nico,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sandy B,
The Red Krayola,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
These Immortal Souls,
Goldenarms,
The American Breed,
The Neon Judgement,
Mad Mike,
The Index,
Subhumans,
The Divine Comedy,
The Blackbyrds,
Fear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Organ,
Arcadia,
Popol Vuh,
Minutemen,
the Swans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Laurel Aitken,
Oblivians,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Godley & Creme,
The Walker Brothers,
Main Source,
Flamin' Groovies,
Index,
Circle Jerks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
EPMD,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scion,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cowsills,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fire Engines,
Jacob Miller,
Jeru the Damaja,
Unwound,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.