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 Benin and from Spokane.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Fania All-Stars to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Y Pants,
The Slackers,
Hardrive,
Morten Harket,
Flash Fearless,
These Immortal Souls,
Ken Boothe,
Traffic Nightmare,
Harry Pussy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Motorama,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masters at Work,
Kaleidoscope,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
Basic Channel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Gories,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter & Gordon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Thompson Twins,
Intrusion,
Rites of Spring,
A Certain Ratio,
Sparks,
The Moody Blues,
Black Flag,
Gang of Four,
Sound Behaviour,
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Pantaleimon,
Donald Byrd,
Matthew Halsall,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bob Dylan,
Scan 7,
Gregory Isaacs,
Excepter,
Vainqueur,
Thee Headcoats,
Aaron Thompson,
Dead Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crime,
Desert Stars,
John Coltrane,
Peter and Kerry,
MC5,
Interpol,
Smog,
The Zeros,
New York Dolls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
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.