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 Bangladesh and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Cairo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Halsall,
John Cale,
Ituana,
Basic Channel,
MDC,
The Searchers,
Robert Görl,
Excepter,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fire Engines,
Barry Ungar,
Schoolly D,
The Dirtbombs,
Funky Four + One,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Sheep,
The Misunderstood,
Niagra,
Morten Harket,
the Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ossler,
The Gun Club,
Yellowson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stiv Bators,
Mad Mike,
Stereo Dub,
Derrick May,
U.S. Maple,
Arcadia,
Massinfluence,
Man Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
Tomorrow,
The Last Poets,
Brick,
The Gories,
Black Pus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
UT,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blackbyrds,
Cameo,
Jacob Miller,
Minutemen,
Alison Limerick,
Davy DMX,
the Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
David McCallum,
Vladislav Delay,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Hot Snakes,
Ronan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Idris Muhammad,
The Move,
Newcleus,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.