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 Eritrea and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Slits to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
The J.B.'s,
Bill Wells,
The Dirtbombs,
Tres Demented,
X-101,
The Selecter,
Cameo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soft Machine,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
JFA,
Liliput,
Deepchord,
Wings,
Don Cherry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minor Threat,
Stetsasonic,
Whodini,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
The Raincoats,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
Piero Umiliani,
Rekid,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Smooth,
Masters at Work,
Black Bananas,
Bauhaus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Robert Wyatt,
Zapp,
Patti Smith,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Grass Roots,
K-Klass,
Grandmaster Flash,
Absolute Body Control,
The Smiths,
Flash Fearless,
Excepter,
Brothers Johnson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fugs,
Dark Day,
Kayak,
Television,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Golliwogs,
Roxette,
The Moleskins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.