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 Lebanon and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Sister Nancy to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
a-ha,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Simply Red,
Tom Boy,
Jeff Lynne,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Pop Group,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Livin' Joy,
Pulsallama,
The Motions,
The New Christs,
Blake Baxter,
Boz Scaggs,
Joyce Sims,
The Last Poets,
OOIOO,
Rotary Connection,
Fear,
The Fall,
Darondo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arcadia,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
R.M.O.,
Jandek,
Q and Not U,
Sam Rivers,
Pet Shop Boys,
10cc,
Flamin' Groovies,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lalo Schifrin,
Metal Thangz,
The Doors,
Kayak,
Warren Ellis,
The Sonics,
Gang of Four,
Tubeway Army,
Kurtis Blow,
Prince Buster,
Organ,
cv313,
Derrick Morgan,
Motorama,
Robert Görl,
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New Order,
Sonic Youth,
Intrusion,
The Mummies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Talk Talk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
Inner City,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.