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 Panama and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nirvana to the techno 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Skarface,
Parry Music,
The Invisible,
Zero Boys,
B.T. Express,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Leaves,
Nas,
Hoover,
Theoretical Girls,
The Grass Roots,
Cheater Slicks,
Soul II Soul,
The Gladiators,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quando Quango,
Roxette,
Sex Pistols,
Bronski Beat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moss Icon,
Pantaleimon,
MDC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Moebius,
The Count Five,
Suburban Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sandy B,
Clear Light,
Banda Bassotti,
Kas Product,
Accadde A,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Sonics,
Harpers Bizarre,
Robert Görl,
Metal Thangz,
Icehouse,
Sugar Minott,
Tom Boy,
The Golliwogs,
Public Enemy,
Althea and Donna,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Danielle Patucci,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Young Rascals,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anthony Braxton,
Talk Talk,
The Motions,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Cell,
Goldenarms,
Eric B and Rakim,
A Certain Ratio,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.