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 Congo and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
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 güiro 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 The Associates to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Minny Pops,
Technova,
Fear,
Sun Ra,
Throbbing Gristle,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Evens,
The Happenings,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Outsiders,
Spoonie Gee,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobby Womack,
Fat Boys,
The Slits,
Zero Boys,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gang Starr,
Pantaleimon,
the Slits,
Pussy Galore,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Suicide,
kango's stein massive,
Yaz,
Junior Murvin,
Ludus,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rakim,
The Smiths,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeru the Damaja,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant,
Minnie Riperton,
Faraquet,
Talk Talk,
The Red Krayola,
Don Cherry,
ABBA,
Main Source,
Todd Terry,
PIL,
Rufus Thomas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Buzzcocks,
The Move,
Bill Near,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.