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 Sweden and from Edmonton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Scott Walker to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moody Blues,
The Skatalites,
Mars,
Eric Copeland,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sonic Youth,
Japan,
The Gap Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alphaville,
Derrick Morgan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masters at Work,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
Neil Young,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funky Four + One,
Fugazi,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Toni Rubio,
The Cowsills,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Raincoats,
the Germs,
The Doors,
The Modern Lovers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Nick Fraelich,
Scan 7,
John Cale,
UT,
Dawn Penn,
Fela Kuti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultravox,
Carl Craig,
Roxy Music,
Grey Daturas,
The Young Rascals,
Scrapy,
R.M.O.,
The Velvet Underground,
Popol Vuh,
Fatback Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lyres,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mark Hollis,
Newcleus,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.