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 South Africa and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 the Slits to the grunge 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Letta Mbulu,
Mark Hollis,
Y Pants,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oneida,
Outsiders,
Piero Umiliani,
Heaven 17,
The Slits,
Fad Gadget,
Ituana,
Kerrie Biddell,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Hill,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kas Product,
The Human League,
kango's stein massive,
Model 500,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fugs,
Crime,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Arab on Radar,
Girls At Our Best!,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grey Daturas,
Godley & Creme,
Ten City,
Zero Boys,
Drexciya,
David Axelrod,
Alice Coltrane,
Wings,
The Music Machine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
Flash Fearless,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Reed,
Pet Shop Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Associates,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Colin Newman,
In Retrospect,
The New Christs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Agent Orange,
Nirvana,
Kayak,
Basic Channel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Swell Maps,
Section 25,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.