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 Bahrain and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Alton Ellis to the electroclash 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Y Pants,
The Mojo Men,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Parry Music,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q65,
Masters at Work,
Q and Not U,
Alison Limerick,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Franke,
Darondo,
Pantytec,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camouflage,
Andrew Hill,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Swans,
Popol Vuh,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
Crooked Eye,
Ice-T,
It's A Beautiful Day,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mars,
The Young Rascals,
Camberwell Now,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bronski Beat,
Kenny Larkin,
Hoover,
The Victims,
Gang Green,
Alice Coltrane,
Terry Callier,
Bauhaus,
Drexciya,
MC5,
Patti Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeff Mills,
Minutemen,
Dark Day,
Pole,
Aloha Tigers,
David McCallum,
Pet Shop Boys,
Silicon Teens,
The Velvet Underground,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skriet,
Thompson Twins,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.