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 Cape Verde and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 The Offenders to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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 Association,
Siglo XX,
New Order,
Marine Girls,
Fugazi,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Happenings,
Sonic Youth,
The Birthday Party,
Wasted Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jandek,
Grey Daturas,
Lucky Dragons,
Fatback Band,
Suicide,
Lebanon Hanover,
LL Cool J,
David Bowie,
The Saints,
Schoolly D,
Fad Gadget,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Monochrome Set,
The Pretty Things,
The Tremeloes,
The Beau Brummels,
Soft Machine,
Reagan Youth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delta 5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Busters,
Television,
Eden Ahbez,
Al Stewart,
the Fania All-Stars,
Severed Heads,
Darondo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kayak,
CMW,
Ornette Coleman,
Lightning Bolt,
Sarah Menescal,
The J.B.'s,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Connie Case,
The Detroit Cobras,
Talk Talk,
Byron Stingily,
Newcleus,
Flash Fearless,
Make Up,
Wally Richardson,
Sixth Finger,
Pantytec,
The Skatalites,
Rotary Connection,
Gabor Szabo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Aloha Tigers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Wake,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.