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 Salvador.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Man Parrish to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ohio Players,
Niagra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Johnny Clarke,
World's Most,
The Golliwogs,
Fad Gadget,
Crispy Ambulance,
48th St. Collective,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Womack,
Yusef Lateef,
The Associates,
Swans,
FM Einheit,
Index,
The Smiths,
Crash Course in Science,
Japan,
Roxy Music,
Harry Pussy,
New Order,
Dennis Brown,
The J.B.'s,
Steve Hackett,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
The Toasters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cameo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
AZ,
The Raincoats,
Moebius,
Erykah Badu,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Al Stewart,
the Slits,
Suicide,
Youth Brigade,
The Monochrome Set,
Nirvana,
The Count Five,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jawbox,
D'Angelo,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
Althea and Donna,
The Birthday Party,
Rakim,
Byron Stingily,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.