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 Cuba and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Holger Czukay 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 Fad Gadget to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
EPMD,
Unwound,
Bluetip,
Cheater Slicks,
Schoolly D,
the Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New York Dolls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Silicon Teens,
Amon Düül II,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Audionom,
E-Dancer,
The Invisible,
Crime,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Monks,
Max Romeo,
Blake Baxter,
Sound Behaviour,
Erykah Badu,
Icehouse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Monks,
Von Mondo,
Interpol,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MDC,
Rakim,
Organ,
Gang Gang Dance,
Donny Hathaway,
The Litter,
X-102,
Wally Richardson,
Avey Tare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Josef K,
CMW,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echospace,
ABBA,
the Association,
Ultimate Spinach,
Excepter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-Ray Spex,
Rod Modell,
The Cure,
Half Japanese,
Colin Newman,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.