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 Kosovo and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ 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 The Toasters to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
CMW,
Easy Going,
Black Bananas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
Animal Collective,
MC5,
Heaven 17,
Junior Murvin,
Angry Samoans,
The Cowsills,
The Pop Group,
The Zeros,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pere Ubu,
Lucky Dragons,
The Electric Prunes,
Kurtis Blow,
Stetsasonic,
Scientists,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter and Kerry,
Ludus,
Motorama,
Pylon,
The Move,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eddi Front,
Main Source,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Depeche Mode,
Joy Division,
Freddie Wadling,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABC,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Howard Jones,
Sugar Minott,
Sparks,
Bobby Sherman,
MDC,
The Seeds,
Symarip,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terry Callier,
Deepchord,
Das Ding,
Blake Baxter,
Intrusion,
Funky Four + One,
Morten Harket,
Gang Starr,
David Bowie,
Soulsonic Force,
Radio Birdman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Aaron Thompson,
DNA,
The Monochrome Set,
Scratch Acid,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.