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 Brazil and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Lou Reed 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 Eli Mardock to the rap 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Nas,
Eli Mardock,
The Zeros,
Duran Duran,
Newcleus,
Accadde A,
The Beau Brummels,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rosa Yemen,
The Skatalites,
Marmalade,
Sex Pistols,
Blossom Toes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nik Kershaw,
The Pretty Things,
Agitation Free,
the Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Main Source,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gabor Szabo,
Unrelated Segments,
Au Pairs,
The Buckinghams,
Alison Limerick,
Cecil Taylor,
Terrestrial Tones,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Misunderstood,
Rufus Thomas,
Mandrill,
Black Moon,
John Lydon,
Flash Fearless,
Faraquet,
Marvin Gaye,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Kaleidoscope,
Section 25,
Parry Music,
EPMD,
Aloha Tigers,
Von Mondo,
The Divine Comedy,
Funkadelic,
Idris Muhammad,
The Techniques,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Thee Headcoats,
Public Enemy,
The Young Rascals,
Adolescents,
Ten City,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.