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 Cyprus and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Scientists to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Hashim,
Livin' Joy,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Warren Ellis,
Chris Corsano,
Scrapy,
Infiniti,
Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Donald Byrd,
Motorama,
Das Ding,
Wire,
New York Dolls,
Little Man,
The Velvet Underground,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Sonny Sharrock,
The J.B.'s,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fortunes,
The Fall,
The Five Americans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Suburban Knight,
New Age Steppers,
Lightning Bolt,
Barry Ungar,
Simply Red,
Blancmange,
John Cale,
Eve St. Jones,
Flipper,
Tommy Roe,
Gang Green,
The Moleskins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Sherman,
Silicon Teens,
Public Enemy,
Arthur Verocai,
JFA,
PIL,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joensuu 1685,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jerry's Kids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vladislav Delay,
The Monochrome Set,
Circle Jerks,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.