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 Bangladesh and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Gil Scott Heron 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Aswad,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fuzztones,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gladiators,
Fat Boys,
DNA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Fall,
Bush Tetras,
New York Dolls,
Mark Hollis,
Cecil Taylor,
The Litter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Starr,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camouflage,
The Doors,
Girls At Our Best!,
Boredoms,
Kenny Larkin,
Harry Pussy,
The Names,
Tomorrow,
Boogie Down Productions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sarah Menescal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Young Rascals,
Slave,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Desert Stars,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Fania All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
Panda Bear,
Little Man,
The Standells,
Joey Negro,
The Fortunes,
Lyres,
Agitation Free,
Joe Finger,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Techniques,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tommy Roe,
Smog,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stetsasonic,
Warsaw,
Warren Ellis,
ABC,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.