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 Chile and from Calgary.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Animal Collective to the grime 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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bauhaus,
Joey Negro,
Dead Boys,
Pere Ubu,
Television,
Hoover,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wings,
Barbara Tucker,
Clear Light,
Brand Nubian,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Judy Mowatt,
Gang Starr,
Loose Ends,
Thompson Twins,
Outsiders,
Moebius,
David Axelrod,
The Count Five,
T.S.O.L.,
Tim Buckley,
Mo-Dettes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Gichy Dan,
The Stooges,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Darondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric Copeland,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visage,
Mandrill,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cameo,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Trumans Water,
Black Sheep,
Essential Logic,
Marmalade,
The Seeds,
Massinfluence,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
Harry Pussy,
Pulsallama,
Mary Jane Girls,
Flipper,
The Vogues,
Soft Cell,
Make Up,
Ossler,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.