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 the UAE and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the punk 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Bobby Byrd,
Moss Icon,
B.T. Express,
Roxy Music,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dawn Penn,
UT,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kayak,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mission of Burma,
LL Cool J,
Rakim,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lower 48,
Maleditus Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Funky Four + One,
Ultravox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fire Engines,
Jawbox,
Qualms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moebius,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Y Pants,
Joensuu 1685,
The Golliwogs,
Main Source,
Bang On A Can,
Derrick Morgan,
Excepter,
Black Sheep,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gang Starr,
Flamin' Groovies,
Morten Harket,
Swans,
Fela Kuti,
Sixth Finger,
The Saints,
Gang Green,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oblivians,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Spoonie Gee,
Kerri Chandler,
The Monochrome Set,
Aloha Tigers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Television Personalities,
The Blues Magoos,
The Barracudas,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Nils Olav,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.