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 Kyrgyzstan and from Bremen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Television to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Radiohead,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ronan,
Schoolly D,
Todd Rundgren,
The Blackbyrds,
Anakelly,
Patti Smith,
Pet Shop Boys,
Man Parrish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Janne Schatter,
The United States of America,
Scott Walker,
Fela Kuti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Bob Dylan,
Rod Modell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Clear Light,
Heaven 17,
Arcadia,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
Alice Coltrane,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pantaleimon,
The New Christs,
Q and Not U,
Quadrant,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lee Hazlewood,
Leonard Cohen,
John Coltrane,
Second Layer,
Wings,
F. McDonald,
Pere Ubu,
Accadde A,
Magazine,
Swans,
Brand Nubian,
New York Dolls,
Nik Kershaw,
Public Enemy,
The Moleskins,
Agitation Free,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kerri Chandler,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sonic Youth,
The Birthday Party,
Flipper,
the Swans,
Marc Almond,
Intrusion,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark 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.