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 Armenia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 marimba 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 Dark Day to the rap 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
In Retrospect,
The Martian,
Dennis Brown,
Arcadia,
Adolescents,
Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moebius,
The Kinks,
Junior Murvin,
Young Marble Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
Lyres,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Derrick May,
Skaos,
The Angels of Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Lungfish,
Roy Ayers,
Laurel Aitken,
Monks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bill Wells,
The Cramps,
Scientists,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Birthday Party,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Al Stewart,
Q65,
Drexciya,
Rekid,
Barbara Tucker,
The Toasters,
The Saints,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Flash Fearless,
KRS-One,
Stiv Bators,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ultra Naté,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minnie Riperton,
Boredoms,
Panda Bear,
The Mummies,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
Joey Negro,
Alison Limerick,
Radio Birdman,
The Slackers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Television Personalities,
Newcleus,
Cluster,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.