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 Kosovo and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Minor Threat to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Idris Muhammad,
Circle Jerks,
UT,
Stockholm Monsters,
Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
The Seeds,
Alphaville,
Half Japanese,
Ten City,
Stereo Dub,
Fluxion,
MDC,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dual Sessions,
Von Mondo,
Schoolly D,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Iggy Pop,
the Soft Cell,
Fat Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Flipper,
Scott Walker,
Kaleidoscope,
The Slackers,
the Association,
Oblivians,
Lalann,
Black Moon,
Radiohead,
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Style,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Section 25,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pere Ubu,
Peter & Gordon,
the Normal,
The Evens,
Ultra Naté,
Avey Tare,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Suicide,
Black Flag,
Anakelly,
OOIOO,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Pop Group,
Dorothy Ashby,
MC5,
Derrick Morgan,
Ornette Coleman,
the Bar-Kays,
Gabor Szabo,
Man Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.