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 Spain and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonics to the disco 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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Mills,
Oblivians,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Bowie,
The Barracudas,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Real Kids,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DNA,
Whodini,
Yusef Lateef,
Skriet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Underground Resistance,
The Stooges,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dead Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Glambeats Corp.,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gories,
Mad Mike,
Television Personalities,
Vainqueur,
Essential Logic,
Quando Quango,
The Sonics,
Bobby Byrd,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Blancmange,
R.M.O.,
H. Thieme,
Matthew Halsall,
Surgeon,
Fluxion,
Fatback Band,
Boz Scaggs,
E-Dancer,
Negative Approach,
Spandau Ballet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eric Dolphy,
X-Ray Spex,
Tears for Fears,
Moebius,
Public Enemy,
Index,
Wally Richardson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Funkadelic,
Infiniti,
Wolf Eyes,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.