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 Serbia and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Hashim to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Oblivians,
DNA,
Fear,
Derrick May,
Sunsets and Hearts,
CMW,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tres Demented,
Barbara Tucker,
Boz Scaggs,
Circle Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Niagra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Real Kids,
Unrelated Segments,
Sight & Sound,
Lyres,
the Germs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dorothy Ashby,
This Heat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stetsasonic,
The Raincoats,
Pet Shop Boys,
Royal Trux,
Junior Murvin,
Sixth Finger,
Sun City Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Carl Craig,
Moebius,
Public Enemy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siglo XX,
The Martian,
Flash Fearless,
Charles Mingus,
Animal Collective,
Funkadelic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jeff Mills,
Howard Jones,
Dark Day,
The Detroit Cobras,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Searchers,
Lower 48,
X-Ray Spex,
Chrome,
Visage,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.