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 Moldova and from New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 This Heat to the rap 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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?
Shuggie Otis,
MDC,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dave Clark Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Faust,
Unrelated Segments,
The Angels of Light,
Theoretical Girls,
The Toasters,
Aaron Thompson,
Rod Modell,
Amon Düül,
Ronnie Foster,
Ken Boothe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Royal Trux,
Quando Quango,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
Harpers Bizarre,
June Days,
Glambeats Corp.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alton Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brothers Johnson,
Reuben Wilson,
D'Angelo,
Nas,
Throbbing Gristle,
cv313,
The Young Rascals,
Deepchord,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
H. Thieme,
LL Cool J,
Dennis Brown,
Cheater Slicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
China Crisis,
Qualms,
Black Sheep,
Delta 5,
Barry Ungar,
Groovy Waters,
Das Ding,
Amon Düül II,
The Gun Club,
Bang On A Can,
Gabor Szabo,
Inner City,
The Victims,
EPMD,
The Names,
Eric B and Rakim,
Whodini,
Los Fastidios,
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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.