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 Dominica and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Roxy Music to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
the Germs,
Groovy Waters,
Mandrill,
Ultravox,
Scan 7,
The American Breed,
Gabor Szabo,
Mantronix,
Television Personalities,
Quando Quango,
Rites of Spring,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mad Mike,
Sound Behaviour,
June of 44,
The Fall,
World's Most,
Tom Boy,
The Motions,
Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fatback Band,
Faraquet,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Skatalites,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
David Bowie,
Porter Ricks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Buzzcocks,
Yazoo,
Janne Schatter,
Fad Gadget,
The Offenders,
Country Teasers,
The Music Machine,
Main Source,
Reuben Wilson,
Severed Heads,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Guru Guru,
Liliput,
The Detroit Cobras,
Flash Fearless,
Fear,
Hasil Adkins,
Jawbox,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ituana,
Sarah Menescal,
DNA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Dolphy,
Connie Case,
Bronski Beat,
Average White Band,
Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.