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 Yemen and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the grime 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quantec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Warsaw,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Swell Maps,
Desert Stars,
Section 25,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Aloha Tigers,
Scratch Acid,
Radiohead,
Sam Rivers,
Dual Sessions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hot Snakes,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young,
Nils Olav,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris Corsano,
Anthony Braxton,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maurizio,
The United States of America,
Stetsasonic,
Darondo,
Index,
The Black Dice,
Porter Ricks,
Moss Icon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Trojans,
Mission of Burma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Icehouse,
Pierre Henry,
Marvin Gaye,
B.T. Express,
Jeff Lynne,
DJ Sneak,
Black Pus,
Bluetip,
Fugazi,
Dawn Penn,
Howard Jones,
Flash Fearless,
Lindisfarne,
New Order,
Robert Hood,
The Kinks,
Adolescents,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Jandek,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.