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 Montenegro and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Motions to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
T.S.O.L.,
Negative Approach,
Alice Coltrane,
Massinfluence,
Marmalade,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gong,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kaleidoscope,
Minor Threat,
Bronski Beat,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fear,
Ituana,
The Music Machine,
Eden Ahbez,
Sight & Sound,
Unwound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Blancmange,
Thee Headcoats,
Scion,
Sexual Harrassment,
A Certain Ratio,
The Modern Lovers,
Intrusion,
Stiv Bators,
Ultra Naté,
Boogie Down Productions,
Prince Buster,
Severed Heads,
The Cramps,
Glenn Branca,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Slits,
The Five Americans,
Sound Behaviour,
Saccharine Trust,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drexciya,
Metal Thangz,
Joensuu 1685,
Scott Walker,
Juan Atkins,
Motorama,
Kas Product,
Simply Red,
Pantaleimon,
Howard Jones,
Susan Cadogan,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül II,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camberwell Now,
The Knickerbockers,
Pantytec,
Wally Richardson,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.