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 Israel and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 LL Cool J to the funk 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Franke,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mandrill,
The Skatalites,
Theoretical Girls,
Accadde A,
MDC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quadrant,
Gang of Four,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Whodini,
Glenn Branca,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Slave,
The Slackers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stetsasonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Lightning Bolt,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Last Poets,
Eli Mardock,
Pantaleimon,
Surgeon,
Yellowson,
The Walker Brothers,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roxette,
These Immortal Souls,
Girls At Our Best!,
The J.B.'s,
Harmonia,
EPMD,
The Moody Blues,
The Misunderstood,
Monks,
The Monochrome Set,
Bad Manners,
June of 44,
Johnny Clarke,
Marvin Gaye,
Cal Tjader,
Howard Jones,
The Cramps,
The Seeds,
Cluster,
Q65,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mojo Men,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.