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 Poland and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 B.T. Express 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funky Four + One,
John Lydon,
Ronan,
Underground Resistance,
Supertramp,
Leonard Cohen,
Q and Not U,
The Associates,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Shoche,
The Angels of Light,
Talk Talk,
Vladislav Delay,
James White and The Blacks,
The Standells,
Camberwell Now,
The Blues Magoos,
Blake Baxter,
Stiv Bators,
The Count Five,
The Offenders,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New Order,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
Godley & Creme,
The Mummies,
Lindisfarne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultra Naté,
World's Most,
The Monochrome Set,
Reagan Youth,
Sister Nancy,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brand Nubian,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Echospace,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deakin,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Pretty Things,
The Knickerbockers,
Wally Richardson,
K-Klass,
Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Selecter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.