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 Azerbaijan and from Columbus.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Ponytail to the dance 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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
The Skatalites,
Dawn Penn,
World's Most,
Cabaret Voltaire,
New Order,
Underground Resistance,
Television Personalities,
Sex Pistols,
Steve Hackett,
Vladislav Delay,
John Foxx,
Charles Mingus,
Pantaleimon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
David McCallum,
Symarip,
Mad Mike,
New Age Steppers,
Slave,
Circle Jerks,
Qualms,
Fat Boys,
Gong,
Graham Central Station,
The American Breed,
Sexual Harrassment,
Marc Almond,
James White and The Blacks,
The Real Kids,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Rapeman,
Moebius,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soul II Soul,
Nico,
Scan 7,
The Grass Roots,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
Gichy Dan,
Eli Mardock,
Donald Byrd,
Guru Guru,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marmalade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sandy B,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Subhumans,
Ultra Naté,
The Seeds,
Parry Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
Lou Christie,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.